Mason & Dixon (Paperback, New Ed)

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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk,ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd 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-RevoluntionaryAmerica and back, through the stange 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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1998
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Thomas Pynchon
Dimensions:	199 x 130 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	773
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-977191-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-09-977191-8
Barcode:	9780099771913

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