The release date for the English version of 'Mason & Dixon' by
Thomas Pynchon is Jan 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The British surveyors most known for drawing the line that defines the modern border between Pennsylvania and Maryland are Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779). This is Thomas Pynchon's retelling of their journey, complete with torn bodices, naval warfare, romantic and political machinations, and copious amounts of coffee.
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, we follow the mismatched pair—one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic—on a grand tour of the dark hemisphere of the Age of Reason, as they observe and partake in the many opportunities for insanity presented by the Age of Reason.