Mason & Dixon. - Hardcover

Pynchon, Thomas.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022405001X ISBN 13: 9780224050012

Publisher: HENRY HOLT., 1997

Synopsis

Jonathan Cape c1997 complete # row 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 hardcover with dj, priced 16.99 British pounds, 773pp.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HENRY HOLT.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 022405001X
• ISBN 13: 9780224050012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700