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When Manda Frank gives birth to an astonishing eleven babies, the world descends on her home town of Three Chimneys, Virginia. Beneath the intense media spotlight the town begins to give up its long-held secrets: from the unrequited love of August Vaughn, the town's avid Thomas Jefferson impersonator, to the more dangerous and subversive passions of Mr March, the local history teacher. Meanwhile, cheesemaker Margaret Prickett decides to highlight the plight of the rural community by creating 'The Mammoth Cheese' - a 1,235-pound wheel of Cheshire which she plans to parade all the way to Washington - while failing to notice the plight of her own teenage daughter Polly, who is caught up in the dangerous romance of rebellion, and veering precariously towards tragedy...'This panoramic social novel with a needle-sharp point of view sends up both small-town America and politics. There's mordant social commentary, discussion of Jeffersonian civic ideals and bittersweet romance, plus more than you needed to know about cow midwifery' PEOPLE
Amazon.com
Sheri Holman's The Mammoth Cheese is the Mississippi River of novels. It winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd would want to learn, let alone absorb with fascination. Along with its moving themes, the pleasures of this novel are in Holman's grasp of human (and not only human) nature, and her gift for expressing this through unexpected details of daily life--that the cows in the local dairy give more milk when Sinatra's playing; that the dirty secret under an eighth-grade girl's mattress is Bride Magazine. Her inconspicuous flashes of verbal brilliance may go unnoticed by all but the most observant readers, but they lend sparkle to a complex and ambitious novel.
--Regina Marler
From Booklist
This big but nimble novel, by the author of the well-received Dress Lodger (2000), is absolutely compelling in its swift satire, yet readers will also respond to its deep sympathies for "well-foibled" individuals. The setting is the little Virginia town of Three Chimneys, which has just experienced a record-setting event: the multiple births of 11 infants to a young, unsophisticated couple artificially helped in their pursuit of fertility. National focus on the little burg is enhanced with the visit of presidential candidate Adams Brooke. One avid supporter of Brooke is local cheese maker Margaret Prickett, whose dairy farm is in financial distress; what Margaret appreciates in Brooke's candidacy is his avid support of the small farmer. But as the weeks go on, and as the babies begin to die, the townspeople, to make themselves look good again, endeavor to take a giant cheese, created by Margaret, to Washington, D.C., to duplicate an act that apparently happened during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. Human nature exposed at its rawest--and most entertaining.
Brad Hooper
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length: (cm)19.4 width:(cm)12.8
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这本书最让我感到惊艳的是它对“时间感”的处理。它似乎打破了线性的束缚，过去、现在和潜在的未来在页面的同一刻发生作用。读者仿佛被置入一个不断回旋的时空漩涡之中，你以为已经走到了终点，却发现自己又回到了故事的起点，只是视角和理解已经完全不同。书中那些关于记忆、遗忘和重塑历史的描写，非常具有现代意义。它迫使我反思自己对过往经历的认知是否也是一种被精心构建的“小说”。作者在字里行间注入了大量的哲学思考，但这些思考都被巧妙地融入了角色的日常生活和他们所处的特定历史背景之中，使得理论不再是干巴巴的教条，而是鲜活的生命体验。这本书需要的不是快速阅读，而是沉浸式的“体验”，它像一个巨大的迷宫，让人流连忘返，乐于迷失其中，直到被最后那个略带苦涩却又充满希望的尾声轻轻推出。
评分坦白说，刚开始读这本书的时候，我有点被它宏大的结构吓住了。它不像我习惯的那些紧凑的叙事，它更像是一幅徐徐展开的壁画，需要耐心去捕捉每一个细节。但一旦你沉浸进去，那种被作者的想象力包裹的感觉是极其美妙的。它探讨的主题非常广阔，涉及历史的变迁、个体在巨大变革面前的无力感，以及对“真实”的哲学追问。作者似乎并不急于给出答案，而是将所有疑问抛给你，让你在阅读的过程中自行去寻找支撑点。这种开放性的处理方式，让这本书具有了极高的重读价值。每次重读，我的关注点都会不同，这次可能专注于某个次要角色的命运线，下次则会留意作者是如何巧妙地运用象征手法来暗示未来的走向。文字的密度极高，但绝不晦涩，它用一种古典而典雅的腔调，讲述着现代的困境，这种时空错位的冲突感，极具张力，让人不得不佩服作者驾驭文字的功力。
评分这本书的对话部分简直可以拿出来单独研究。角色们说话的方式、选择的词汇，无不透露出他们的社会阶层、教育背景乃至当下的情绪状态。你会发现，很多时候，真正重要的信息并不是被直接说出来的，而是隐藏在那些欲言又止的停顿、那些略显笨拙的措辞里。作者深谙“言语的悖论”，即我们越是想表达什么，往往越是说不清楚。我尤其喜欢其中两位主角之间的几次关键交锋，他们之间的较量，与其说是言语上的辩驳，不如说是一种精神层面的角力，每一次交锋都让人物的形象更加立体和复杂。读起来，我感觉自己不是在看书，而是在偷听一场场极具私密性的灵魂对话。唯一让我觉得略微费力的是其中涉及的专业领域知识，虽然作者做了大量铺垫，但对于一个门外汉来说，理解那些复杂的原理还是需要花费额外的注意力，不过，这种小小的挑战也恰恰是它引人入胜的一部分。
评分我向来对那些故作高深的文学作品持保留态度，但这部作品成功地打消了我的疑虑。它的“深”是源于对人性的洞察，而非故弄玄虚的辞藻堆砌。书中的情感线处理得极其细腻和克制，尤其是涉及到“失去”的主题时，作者没有采用煽情的笔法，而是通过环境的荒凉、日常生活的重复和人物微小的习惯变化来表现那种深入骨髓的哀伤。这种“不动声色的力量”非常震撼。它让你在不经意间，眼眶就湿润了，而你甚至不清楚是哪一个细节触发了泪腺。此外，这本书的结构非常精巧，它采用了非线性叙事，多重视角的切换如同在万花筒中观察同一个场景，每一层玻璃片都折射出不同的光彩，直到最后将所有碎片拼凑起来，才得到一个近乎完整的画面。这种叙事技巧的运用，极大地提升了作品的艺术价值。
评分这部作品的叙事节奏把握得如同大师级的指挥家，时而如低沉的大提琴般缓慢铺陈，细致入微地描摹人物的内心挣扎与环境的细微变化；时而又像骤然爆发的铜管乐章，将情节推向高潮，令人肾上腺素飙升。作者对于场景的构建简直是一绝，你仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土味，感受到阳光穿过斑驳树叶投下的温度。尤其是对那个偏远小镇的刻画，那种封闭、压抑又带着一丝古老魅力的氛围，被勾勒得淋漓尽致。书中对于人际关系的探讨更是深刻，那些隐藏在表面和善之下的暗流涌动，那种欲言又止的张力，让人读起来既揪心又过瘾。它不是那种一目了然的快餐文学，更像是一块需要细细品味的陈年佳酿，每一次翻页，都能品出新的滋味，体会到作者埋藏在字里行间的深意。读完之后，那种萦绕心头挥之不去的情感残留，证明了作者笔力的非凡。我特别欣赏作者那种不动声色的幽默感，它不是那种大张旗鼓的笑料，而是巧妙地穿插在严肃的叙事中，像是在阴郁的天空突然划过的一道绚烂闪电，让人会心一笑，继而陷入更深的沉思。
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