It takes the average reader 2 hours and 39 minutes to read Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike by Alan Vanneman
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Author! Author! contains two short stories and a novella, with famous authors as the leading characters. In “The Transfiguration of W. H. Auden,” the great poet dies and goes, not to heaven, but someplace better. Victorian England! In “The Man Who Met Joyce Carol Oates,” an admirer discovers that encountering genius is not without peril. In “The Apotheosis of John Updike,” the poet of suburbia encounters catharses without number west of the Hudson.Alan Vanneman is the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra and Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara. He also writes online film reviews for the Bright Lights Film Journal and maintains a blog, Literature R Us. He does not own a cat but does possess a very large television set. He enjoys reading about dinosaurs and British parliamentary figures, in that order.
Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike by Alan Vanneman is 156 pages long, and a total of 39,936 words.
This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike aloud.
Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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