Praise For The Mammoth Cheese
“Holman has put on seven-league boots to tread a wittily intricate dance step. . . .[The Mammoth Cheese] possesses, page by page, or bite by bite if you prefer, an intense, refined and lingering flavor. . . . [It] lofts global literary thoughts upon agile local activity. . . . I like and admire her novel a lot.” —Richard Eder, The New York Times
“Holman has fashioned a tale that is poignant and powerful and, like an award-winning cheese, surprisingly complex.” —Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post Book World
“Stunning. . . . A Great American Novel par excellence. . . . The Mammoth Cheese is as smooth, and often as surprising, as dreaming.” —Bethany Schneider, Newsday
Praise for The Dress Lodger
“Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.”—Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
“The Dress Lodger is as unsettling as it is brilliant. Holman attempts Herculean feats of plot and character, and the resulting novel is seamlessly crafted and deserving of wide acclaim and readership.”—The Washington Post Book World
“The Dress Lodger not just a first-rate entertainment but a moving, enlightening one as well.”—Jason K. Friedman, The San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for The Stolen Tongue
“Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery . . . Holman [has a] manic, spiritually inquisitive imagination.”— Entertainment Weekly
“Holman seduces you into a world of priests, rogues, saints, a world bright with horizon, wonder, piety. Her prose, tart, racy, and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.”— Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
“Holman tells a fascinating story. From the opening scene in Crete to the harrowing finale in the Sinai desert, she knows how to create suspense.” — The Washington Post Book World
“A Stolen Tongue is that rare thing: a page-turner which is at the same time intellectually stimulating, very moving and highly original in execution. The best historical thriller I have read since Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose.” — Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life