{"product_id":"mason-dixon-by-thomas-pynchon-9780099771913","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Pynchon's hugely ambitious, epic historical fiction brings to madcap life the fault lines of modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn epic, historical adventure into the friendship of two men on their journey to map the fault lines of modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring\u003c\/em\u003e—Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010598088940,"sku":"9780099771913","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099771913-mason-dixon.jpg?v=1785153076","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mason-dixon-by-thomas-pynchon-9780099771913","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}