Mason & Dixon
THOMAS PYNCHON
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| Book Description |
| The award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow follows mismatched British surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as they make their way through frontier hardships, Native Americans, warfare, conspiracies, and other perils of eighteenth-century, pre-Revolutionary America. 200,000 first printing. |
| Amazon.com Review |
| A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. |
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| Thomas Pynchon Award Stats |
| Major Prize* Nominations |
2 |
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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| National Book Award Wins |
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Gravity's Rainbow · |
| National Book Award Nominations |
2 |
Gravity's Rainbow · Bleeding Edge · |
| Man Booker Prize Wins |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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170 reviews (1997) (773p)
283 reviews (2013) (496p)
