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Article: NEW 'MASON & DIXON' HEFTY ONE FROM PYNCHON.(AT HOME)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 10, 1997
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Byline: Maureen Conlan
The elusive Thomas Pynchon has published his awaited novel, ''Mason & Dixon (Holt, $27.50), about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, 18th-century surveyors who gave us the Mason-Dixon line. At 773 pages, it's a magnum opus. Here's how it opens:''Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware, - the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, ...