Mason & Dixon
1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in the Dutch Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War in the United States.
Author | Thomas Pynchon |
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Cover artist | Raquel Jaramillo |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Postmodern novel, historical novel, biography |
Published | April 30, 1997 (1997-04-30) (Henry Holt and Company) |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 773 |
ISBN | 0-8050-3758-6 |
OCLC | 36430653 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3566.Y55 M37 1997 |
The novel, written in a style based on late 18th century English[1] is a frame narrative told from the focal point of Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke, a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy who, on a cold December evening in 1786,[2] attempts to entertain and divert his extended family (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house) by telling a tall tale version of Mason and Dixon's biographies (claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys).