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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.
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The American novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon, complex fictions noted for their encyclopedic erudi...
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Thomas Pynchon 's willingness to address the most important cultural and social issues makes him an important writer. He depicts the plight of contemporary humanity caught in, rather than sustained by...
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Thomas Pynchon 's ancestral roots go deep into the soil of America--an appropriate genealogy for a writer whose overriding concern in his fictional project is the construction of "America" and the nec...
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In the following review, McConnell offers high praise for Mason and Dixon, which he describes as "one of the most stunning novels I've ever read."
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In the following review, Gray offers favorable assessment of Mason and Dixon. According to Gray, Pynchon "transforms what might have been a merely amusing historical novel into a moving and pro...
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In the following review, Wood offers unfavorable assessment of Mason and Dixon, finding fault in Pynchon's equivocal allegories and indeterminate multiple meanings.
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)
Critical Review by Frank McConnell
