Mason and Dixon - Hardcover

Pynchon, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805037586 ISBN 13: 9780805037586

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1997

Synopsis

The award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow follows mismatched British surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as they make their way through frontier hardships, Native Americans, warfare, conspiracies, and other perils of eighteenth-century, pre-Revolutionary America. 200,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Pynchon's finest work yet...if anyone is still looking for the Great American Novel...then this may well be it" (Brian Morton Scotland on Sunday)

"A rollicking, picaresque tale... playful, erudite and funny" (New York Times)

"Very grand and mad and beautiful...I can't remember ever having reviewed a more original novel... and if America produces a novel to come near this marvellous, proliferating thing this decade, I promise to eat it" (Philip Hensher Spectator)

"Pynchon offers readers a trip as long and full of yearning as that of his heroes" (New Yorker)

"A hugely ambitous epic...show cases all of Mr Pynchon's gifts as a writer: his magical abilty to fuse history and fable, science and science fiction; his Swiftean grasp of satire and his vaudevillian's sense of farce. It's a book that testifies to his remarkable powers of invention and his sheer power as a storyteller... as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring" (New York Times)

Book Description:

A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805037586
• ISBN 13: 9780805037586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 773