How Long to Read Cinderella Liberty

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinderella Liberty?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Cinderella Liberty by Darryl Ponicsan 

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Author of THE LAST DETAIL and LAST FLAG FLYING We first meet John Baggs, YN 2, U.S. Navy, soaking his very sore backside in a sitz bath at sea, aboard the USS Begonia. This is Baggs' second enlistment. He's an unlikely sailor—onetime physics major, possible minister—but the Navy's a lot preferable to science or the pulpit, despite its absurdities, and he can still enjoy the pleasure of sins he wasn't willing to re­nounce. Then came the day he presented his ail­ment to the ship's doctor and was told he needed surgery and a thirty-day stay at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Vir­ginia. Not for John Baggs a conventional hospitalization, discharge, and return to duty. In the ultimate bureaucratic snafu, the Navy loses Baggs' records. He is offi­cially nonexistent. He can't be discharged from the hospital—or transferred, re­assigned, promoted, or paid. He seems condemned forever to his hospital niche though he's long since recovered. His superiors take pity on his limbo after a while and grant Baggs Cinderella liberty—off each evening and from noon on weekends, as long as he checks into his hospital bed by midnight. But it's a lonely existence for a penniless sailor until he meets bargirl Maggie Paul. Feckless, street­wise Maggie and her three children become John Baggs' life for a few hours each day. It is a crazy idyll that this impromptu family shapes for a few months—and, as idylls must, it ends. But not for keeps, and not in any way one might have imagined. For John Baggs, nonperson, becomes a person again—if not John Baggs. Instant, permanent fatherhood accompanies his new identity in an ending so raucous and touching that the reader finishes these pages in a surge of laughter and tears. Darryl Ponicsan's novel is a gusty de­light.

How long is Cinderella Liberty?

Cinderella Liberty by Darryl Ponicsan  is 183 pages long, and a total of 46,299 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinderella Liberty Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Cinderella Liberty aloud.

What Reading Level is Cinderella Liberty?

Cinderella Liberty is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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