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"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, in an updated
eighteenth-century novel 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 to them
by the Age of Reason."
ISBN # 0-8050-3758-6
Publication Date: April 1, 1997
61/8 x 91/4 at 704pp.
$27.50
Expect a 200,000-copy first printing and "National Television and Print
Advertising" along with a "National Laydown Date."
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