Mason & Dixon (Paperback, First)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Thomas Pynchon
Dimensions:	209 x 138 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	771
Edition:	First
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-42320-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-312-42320-9
Barcode:	9780312423209

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