Great Expectations

A profane commentary on the hoopla surrounding the summer's biggest book, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

Nick Gillespie | July 28, 1997

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released Mason & Dixon, the

700-page novel-cum-sleep-aid (at

US$27.95, it is cheaper, denser,

and more effective than a

Sobakawa pillow). As one

reviewer gushed - and they all

gushed, like so many Kuwaiti oil

wells during the Gulf War -

Mason &Dixon is a

"rollicking and hugely powerful

book that reconfirms Pynchon's

mesmerizing genius."

Here it is, hard-truth time,

barely halfway through the