thomas pynchon vintage novel mason & dixon 1997 henry holt 1st edition 1st print literature fiction historical book
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997
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, 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-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.
Title: Mason & Dixon
Author:Thomas Pynchon
Series: n/a
Hardcover: 773 pages
Printing: 1st
Publisher: Henry Holt (1997)
Language: English
Condition: Very Good + (See Condition Notes)
Condition Notes: Vintage 1st Edition, 1st Print Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering. Text and pages clean and unmarked. Has minor shelf & handling wear. Some wear to bottom of dust jacket spine, Dust jacket is protected by a jacket cover. A nice vintage copy of this novel by Thomas Pynchon