{"product_id":"mason-dixon-english-edition-thomas-pynchon","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon, English edition (Thomas Pynchon)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThomas Pynchon \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eV.,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlow Learner \u003c\/i\u003e(a collection of short stories), \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 784 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815918707037,"sku":"K007409241","price":15.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/0740924100001A.jpg?v=1788583800","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/mason-dixon-english-edition-thomas-pynchon","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}