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Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

19971 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1997
first published
  • 1997Henry Holt · 773 pages · ENGISBN 9780805037586
  • 2015Maxi-Tusquets · 960 pagesISBN 9788490660669
  • 1998Holt Paperbacks · 773 pages · ENGISBN 9780805058376
  • 1998Vintage · 784 pagesISBN 9780099771913
  • 1998Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) · 700 pagesISBN 9780099275046
  • 2019Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781664473478
  • 1997Books on Tape, Inc.ISBN 9780736637817
  • 2004Picador · 784 pages · ENGISBN 9780312423209

Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.

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