Mason & Dixon

Description

A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author. 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 and 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. —- ISBN: 9780099771913

Additional information

Format	Paperback

Features

Print length:	784 pages
Language:	English
Publisher:	VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Publication date:	1 May 1998
Dimensions:	12.9 x 4 x 19.8 cm
ISBN-10:	0099771918
ISBN-13:	978-0099771913

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