{"product_id":"mason-dixon-a-novel-9780805037586","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Pynchon, Thomas. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780805037586.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997\nTime Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997\n\nCharles 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. We follow the mismatchd 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 Enlightenments dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953844383797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805037586","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805037586_9fe99ddf-3d7f-4774-9d2a-a3e1bd7562eb.jpg?v=1778862897","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mason-dixon-a-novel-9780805037586","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}