It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Gathering Chrysanthemums by Peter Maguire
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Olivia is an unsettled art history lecturer who is consulted in the restoration of a painting which was severely damaged in an attempted robbery. During her inspection of the work by the obscure impressionist artist, Desquenne, she uncovers a paper inside its canvas which scathingly accounts the irresponsible life of a man known only by the shorthand name, Arm. Initially, the discovery is just an academic curiosity, but Olivia quickly finds that more Desquenne paintings contain papers describing family turmoil and unexplained deaths, along with antique photographs and a key. Olivia soon meets the alluring Nancie, a cleverly calculating though isolated Bordeaux art dealer, whose own client, Nicolas, has a shady past with piercing connections to Desquenne. Olivia desperately wants to understand her late father's obsession with the painter, and she must discover not only her father's extensive role in what skeletons the paintings hold but also her own immediate relation to their contents. From her Nova Scotia home, her travels take her through the English Midlands and to a French vineyard where she encounters a startling atrocity left by Arm and his son, entombed deep within the family estate's wine cave.
Gathering Chrysanthemums by Peter Maguire is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Gathering Chrysanthemums aloud.
Gathering Chrysanthemums is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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