Mason & Dixon

By Thomas Pynchon

Subjects: Vie des pionniers, Frontier and pioneer life, Maryland, fiction, Romans, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Surveyors, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Pennsylvania, fiction, Historical fiction, Géomètres, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Surveying, British, Belletristische Darstellung, History

Description: 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.