Mason & Dixon

A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author.

Zusatztext Vintage edition of this widely acclaimed and startlingly original literarynovel! which is widely regarded as one of Pynchon's finest works to date.An updated eighteenth century novel! it features Native Americans! frontierfolk! ripped bodices! naval warfare and conspiracies! both erotic and political!in its many-layered portrayal of the lives of Mason and Dixon! two Britishsurveyors whose names are indelibly etched on the tablet of American history."If anyone is still looking for the great American novel! then this maywell be it" (Scotland On Sunday). Informationen zum Autor Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49 , Gravity's Rainbow , Slow Learner , a collection of short stories, Vineland and, most recently, Against the Day . He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Klappentext A reissue of Pynchon's classic historical novel set in the 18th century. Zusammenfassung 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.

Vorwort
A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author.

Autorentext

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Klappentext

A reissue of Pynchon's classic historical novel set in the 18th century.

Zusammenfassung
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.