H. Holt Promotion

[davemarc]

At 11:50 AM 11/26/96 -0500, Stanley wrote:
>The catalogue blurb from HH readeth as followeth:
>
>MASON &
>DIXON
>
>  "Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the 
>British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between 
>Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line.  
>Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 
>eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, 
>ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major 
>caffeine abuse.  We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other 
>depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-romantic--from their first journey 
>together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, 
>through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, 
>on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe 
>and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented to them 
>by the Age of Reason."
>
>Does anyone detect the timely hand of TP in this obviously blatant piece 
>of non-promotion?  
>
This question inspired me to contact a Henry Holt publicist, who said that
that the blurb was written "in-house," not by P.

davemarc