The Mammoth Cheese

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 468. Yellow printed wraps.

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Author's third novel. A Publishers Weekly and San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. A chronicle of rural life and American excess set in the town of Three Chimneys, Virginia, as the residents try to re-create the original Thomas Jefferson-era, 1,235-pound "Mammoth Cheese." From the author of the The Dress Lodger (2000), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "[A] timely, clever and passionately humane satire on modern American politics." –Helen Falconer, The Guardian