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Mason & Dixon

By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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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, 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.

©1997 Thomas Pynchon (P)2019 Recorded Books Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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The book is staggeringly clever, funny, warm and sad, and the performance is truly excellent.

Absolutely incredible

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Could not finish it. With 6 hours to go I had lost the goodwill to be impressed. And had lost the plot hours before.

Clever and well informed but self-indulgent.

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I don't know if this is ultimately a good book or not. it is written in a slightly quirky fashion and the narrator, does not help. I was left completely confused and found the narration irritating to the point of... whatever. have up and returned it. Matt but the book and read it myself in the future.

Maybe a good book

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