Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1998 • Owl Books • Mint

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

FIRST TRADE PAPERBACK PRINTING [1998] PERENNIAL LIBRARY

XL Deluxe trade paperback with textured card stock cover and both front and rear panels. 1st printing / 1998.  

Near mint and still unread copy with some mild shelf wear to cover.  Trace shelf wear to cover. Gorgeous!

New York Times and Time Magazine's "Best Book of the Year" awardsCharles 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 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-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.