How Long to Read Ice Pick

How Long Does it Take to Read Ice Pick?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Ice Pick by Donnie Dale

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

Description

Set in 1938 Los Angeles, ICE PICK is the story of Donovan Daley, Dust Bowl Okie working as an ice man by day and burglarizing rich homes by night. Wanda Kitchen, a radical Jewish union organizer, is in town to repair the local garment workers union. They share an unlikely romance and a Hollywood duplex. But that isn't enough. They pull a heist against Charles Rucker, a big-shot Nazi sympathizer and oil swindler, and this leads to difficulties. This emotional thriller takes place in that tumultuous era just before World War II, presaging social conflicts that will roil America for decades to come. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ICE PICK "Donnie Dale's ICE PICK is hardboiled L.A. noir, to be sure. It's often violent and unflinching. But it's a novel with a big heart and a good head as the love story of Donovan and Wanda unfolds to a blending of action and ideology that forever changes both characters, and the reader, as well." -Thomas Cobb, author of CRAZY HEART and WITH BLOOD IN THEIR EYES "Donnie Dale is a prose magician in his gritty novel ICE PICK. He seamlessly conjures the hard-bitten world of labor activists, brutal gangsters, and entrenched racism and bigotry in 1930s LA, caught in the grips of the Depression. Dale brings two masterfully wrought characters into unlikely union...in this violent, thrilling, and yet, at times, tender novel." -Jeffrey Greene, author of WATER FROM STONE and BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS "There are many ways to recover and re-experience the texture and psychology of the recent past. In ICE PICK, Donnie Dale fashions a novel that fuses the long Southern California tradition of minimalist fiction with contemporary docu-drama." -Kevin Starr, University of Southern California Donnie Dale's last novel was A HUNTER'S FIRE. He worked for many years as a freelance writer and for the movie and television industries. His website is DonnieDale.com.

How long is Ice Pick?

Ice Pick by Donnie Dale is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ice Pick Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Ice Pick aloud.

What Reading Level is Ice Pick?

Ice Pick is suitable for students ages 12 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.

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