SOURCE: A review of Mason and Dixon, in Commonweal, August 15, 1997, pp. 20-2.

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."

I've never been any good at keeping secrets. So: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon is not only the most stunning novel I've read in the last twenty years, but one of the most stunning novels I've read, comma, period. At this point I think we can safely argue that the radiant center of American fiction is inhabited by only three characters, Melville, Faulkner, and Pynchon, and I'm not too sure about Melville, and I left out the unapproachable Henry James only because he didn't really want to be American. So am I telling you that if you don't read Mason & Dixon your life will be, by that measure, impoverished? You bet. But...