Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)

Very large paperback (almost 800 pages) in good condition

Postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 and V.

It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in the Dutch Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain, and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War in the United States.

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.

Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the 1990s, Mason & Dixon inspired Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) ‘Sailing to Philadelphia’ duetted with James Taylor. The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne was a big influence.

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