Mason & Dixon, English edition
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 1998 |
Seiten | 784 |
Format | 13,0 x 19,5 x 4,1 cm |
B-Format | |
Gewicht | 568 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0099771918 |
EAN | 9780099771913 |
Bestell-Nr | 09977191EA |
A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author.
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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse.
We 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.
Rezension:
Pynchon's finest work yet...if anyone is still looking for the Great American Novel...then this may well be it Brian Morton Scotland on Sunday