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Title: Pynchon reconfirms his reputation.
Review: Mason & Dixon is alternately comic and cryptic, ribald andmelancholick, zany and ponderous, a book that flows like the river ofHeraclitus which modern reason strains to contain. It was Heraclitus who argued that opposites are one in reality; Pynchon's fiction seeks out the 'excluded middle', those zones of ambiguity which our world flattens out and levels down into blank facticity. Mason & Dixon bursts with energy, wit, fecundity of imagination and linguistic mastery. It may lack the despair and anger of Pynchon's masterpiece, Gravity's Rainbow, yet there is a warmth and tenderness, a genuine lyricism to this book. Mason & Dixon reconfirms Thomas Pynchon's status as one of the great novelists of our age.
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