TY - SER
KW - Mason-Dixon Line
KW - surveyors
KW - Native Americans
KW - Charles Mason (1728-86)
KW - Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79)
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Jesuits
KW - Quakers
KW - George Washington (1732-99)
KW - priests
AU - Thomas Pynchon
AB - An epic postmodern novel about the English astronomers and surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who tried to solve the border dispute between the British colonies of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia by demarcating the Mason-Dixon Line.  “With a team of purveyors, axmen, cooks, and pot menders, they are able, in five years’ time,” writes <em>The New York Times Book Review</em>, “to cut the beautiful, unwavering, and authoritative black slash across the map that divides Pennsylvania from Maryland and West Virginia.”
C1 - 1767
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Bedford County; Fayette County; Greene County; Dunkard Creek; Somerset County
C4 - Literary; Historical; Biographical; Western; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - An epic postmodern novel about the English astronomers and surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who tried to solve the border dispute between the British colonies of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia by demarcating the Mason-Dixon Line.  “With a team of purveyors, axmen, cooks, and pot menders, they are able, in five years’ time,” writes <em>The New York Times Book Review</em>, “to cut the beautiful, unwavering, and authoritative black slash across the map that divides Pennsylvania from Maryland and West Virginia.”
PB - Henry Holt
PP - New York
PY - 1997
RN - Thomas Pynchon (1937— ), born in New York, is best known for his complicated, dense novels. His novel, <em>Gravity’s Rainbow</em>, won the 1974 National Book Award.
EP - 773 p.
TI - Mason & Dixon
ER -