{"product_id":"thomas-pynchon-mason-dixon-1999","title":"Thomas Pynchon: Mason \u0026 Dixon [1998]","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles 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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow the mismatch'd 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-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange 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":"Pynchon, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":54327070916947,"sku":"XE80099771913","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/pynchon-thomas-thomas-pynchon-mason-dixon-1998-xe80099771913-1249336896.jpg?v=1784220578","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/thomas-pynchon-mason-dixon-1999","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}