jmags reviewed Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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4 stars
I was ambivalent for most of this book, but something about the ending felt convincing.
Paperback, 773 pages
English language
Published April 15, 1998 by Holt Paperbacks.
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.
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.
Subjects
- Modern fiction
- Historical - General
- Fiction
- Fiction - Historical
- United States
- History
- Fiction / General
- Reading Group Guide
- Dixon, Jeremiah
- General
- 1728-1786
- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Mason, Charles,