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Mason & Dixon |
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| Author Name: |
Pynchon, Thomas |
| Publisher Name: |
Vintage Classics |
| ISBN: |
9780099771913 |
| Subject: |
General & Literary Fiction,Historical Fiction |
| Edition: |
Paperback |
| Language: |
ENGLISH |
| Pages: |
784 |
| Publication Date: |
39436 |
| Price: |
 499.00 |
| List Price: |
399.20 |
| You Save: |
99.8 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
| Shipping Time: |
4 - 5 DAYS |
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| About Book |
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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-Revoluntionary America 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. |
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