Jonathan Cape c1997 complete # row 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 hardcover with dj, priced 16.99 British pounds, 773pp.
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Review:
A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow.
About the Author:
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of stories, and Vineland. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.
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- PublisherHENRY HOLT.
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 022405001X
- ISBN 13 9780224050012
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages700
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