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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mason & Dixon

Mason & Dixon

Pynchon, Thomas

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $30.99

ISBN10: 0312423209
ISBN13: 9780312423209
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 3 2004
Pages: 784
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times.

It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in Mason & Dixon has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor.
--Jenny Turner, London Review of Books

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.

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