{"product_id":"mason-dixon-1","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is a monumental achievement, what Pynchon in Mason \u0026amp; Dixon has done. You will not know what has hit you until you are flat out on the floor.' \u003cbr\u003e-Jenny Turner, London Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54144452821330,"sku":"9780312423209","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_3a565a66-0feb-4f9b-984c-5b2003df2c19.jpg?v=1785503310","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/mason-dixon-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}