How Long to Read Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy

How Long Does it Take to Read Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy by Robert L. Gale

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Description

Tennessee-born Horace McCoy joined the American Air Service in WWI, was wounded flying over France, became a reporter-actor in Dallas. In Hollywood, he was popular as a handsome actor, then toiled as a prolific movie-script writer. McCoy burst into fame with his first novel, They Shoot Horses, Dont They?, about Depression-era marathon dancers. His No Pockets in a Shroud features a social climber bribed to have his marriage annulled by the brides rich father, then establishing a radical magazine. I Should Have Stayed Home exposes Hollywood moguls and rich old women exploiting would-be actors and actresses. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye features warfare between a professional criminal and corrupt law-enforcement agents. When made into a movie it starred Jimmy Cagney. Additional films were based on McCoys fiction. McCoy visited England and France where translations of his works were admired by existentialists. Scalpel, his best-seller, features Tom Owen, a successful WWII military surgeon at odds with his superiors, including General Patton. Owen returns to his Western Pennsylvania roots to investigate his brothers death, is drawn into high-society--temporarily? Well-educated Owen perhaps resembles what McCoy aspired to be. But love of cars, wine, travel, and the high life clipped his wings. He left Corruption City, a sixth novel, in fragmentary form--completed by a ghost writer and blasting yet another set of unclean cops and thieving politicians. McCoys popularity in Europe may be better than in America, a land he loved and wished were cleaner. This book begins with a chronology of major events in the life of Horace McCoy (1897-1955), and then in one alphabetized sequence synopsizes the plots of his six novels and identifies each of their 494 characters--often with critical comments by publishing scholars, including Gale. It concludes with a select bibliography showing the range of scholarship on McCoy, then an index.

How long is Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy?

Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy by Robert L. Gale is 255 pages long, and a total of 65,025 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy aloud.

What Reading Level is Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy?

Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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