{"product_id":"mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon -- Thomas Pynchon, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\"It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e--Jenny Turner, \u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/3\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.35 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.57\" L x 1.34\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780312423209\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528384483632,"sku":"9780312423209","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780312423209_a67de5f2-096f-4ea1-9b98-fce4a1994a07.jpg?v=1784230588","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}