{"product_id":"mason-dixon","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jenny Turner, \u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, 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.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47994787299517,"sku":"BS-TC0-423209","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780312423209-HD.jpg?v=1786738968","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/mason-dixon","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}