It takes the average reader and 24 minutes to read Crossroads Chapter Sampler by Jonathan Franzen
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Download the first chapter of Jonathan Franzen's next novel, Crossroads. It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture,...
Crossroads Chapter Sampler by Jonathan Franzen is 24 pages long, and a total of 6,096 words.
This makes it 8% the length of the average book. It also has 7% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 33 minutes to read Crossroads Chapter Sampler aloud.
Crossroads Chapter Sampler is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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