{"product_id":"mason-dixon-a-novel-0312423209-used","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0312423209\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pynchon, Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times.\"It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in Mason \u0026amp; Dixon has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor.\"-Jenny Turner, London Review of BooksCharles 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, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched 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 Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67661180993824,"sku":"USED0312423209","price":11.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71i9q-AbWnL_bd2ca831-e1d4-41d5-af26-f32d444edba5.jpg?v=1791291572","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/mason-dixon-a-novel-0312423209-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}