{"product_id":"mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon -- Thomas Pynchon, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.57w x 1.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312423209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2007 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Pynchon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner\u003c\/i\u003e (a collection of stories), and \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow \u003c\/i\u003ein 1974. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Pynchon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49790808359140,"sku":"9780312423209","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780312423209.jpg?v=1788595120","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}