Mason & Dixon

FE/FP About fine book with similar dust jacket. Acetate with title printed on front and spine is intact, over near fine jacket, with light crimping at bottom edge of front panel. Pynchon's sixth novel, started in 1975 but published after Vineland. Clean text block. Tight, square binding. The novel, written in a style based on late-18th-century English, is a frame narrative told from the focal point of Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke, a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy who, on a cold December evening in 1786, attempts to entertain his family by telling a tall tale version of Mason and Dixon's biographies, claiming to have accompanied them on their journeys. 773 pages.