“A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring. “M ason & Dixon-like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses-is one of the great novels about friendship in anybody's literature.” - John Leonard, The Nation McLaughlin, Review of Contemporary Fiction “ Mason & Dixon is an amazing achievement.the novel of our time.” - Robert L. 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. 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. 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.
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