Mason & Dixon: A Novel
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Book Info
Author
Pynchon, Thomas
Word Count
196,000 words
based on page count
Pages
784 pages
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Edition Publisher
Picador
Edition Publish Date
2004-01-03
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0312423209
ISBN-13: 9780312423209
Description
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that has come to be known as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here the "National Book Award"-winning author of "Gravity's Rainbow" imagines their story in an updated 18th-century novel featuring Native Americans, frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse.
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