Mason & Dixon

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<p><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The New York Times.</i></b><br><br><b>"It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in <i>Mason &amp; Dixon</i> has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor." </b><br><b>-Jenny Turner,<i> London Review of Books</i></b><br><br>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, 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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780312423209

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

211 x 139 x 37 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Picador USA