The mammoth cheese : a novel / Sheri Holman.
By: Holman, Sheri.
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BookPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2003Edition: 1st ed.Description: 442 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0871139006.Subject(s): Historical reenactments -- Fiction | Presidents -- Election -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Women dairy farmers -- Fiction | Rural families -- Fiction | Multiple birth -- Fiction | Cheesemakers -- Fiction | Cheesemaking -- Fiction | Virginia -- Fiction | Historical reenactments -- Fiction | Presidents -- Election -- Fiction | Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction | Women farmers -- Fiction | Farm family -- Fiction | Multiple birth -- Fiction | Cheesemakers -- Fiction | Dairying -- Fiction | Virginia -- Fiction | Domestic fictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: The tiny town of Three Chimneys, Virginia becomes the focus of media attention when dog trainer Manda Frank gives birth to eleven babies, and the resulting visit by presidential candidate Adams Brooke inspires struggling cheesemaker Margaret Prickett, an avid Brooke supporter, to re-create for him the 1,235-pound of Chelshire made by Thomas Jefferson's fans and transported to Washington in 1801.
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The tiny town of Three Chimneys, Virginia becomes the focus of media attention when dog trainer Manda Frank gives birth to eleven babies, and the resulting visit by presidential candidate Adams Brooke inspires struggling cheesemaker Margaret Prickett, an avid Brooke supporter, to re-create for him the 1,235-pound of Chelshire made by Thomas Jefferson's fans and transported to Washington in 1801.
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