How Long to Read Idle Talk

How Long Does it Take to Read Idle Talk?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 1 minute to read Idle Talk by Alison Hoddinott

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

Description

This volume, edited and with invaluable notes by Alison Hoddinott, comprises Gwen Harwood's fascinating, unexpurgated letters to Alison and Bill Hoddinott, during four crucial years, from 1960- 1964, a period which can be described as Harwood's creative floreat. They are also years in which her life-long relationships with A.D. Hope, James McAuley and Vincent Buckley begin, her friendships with Vivian and Sybille Smith and others consolidate, and in which Harwood was briefly notorious for her scandalous Bulletin acrostics and her confounding publication under several male pseudonyms. Approximately 10 percent of these letters have appeared already, in A Steady Storm of Correspondence (2001), but here we not only have the unedited versions, revealing even more than that volume the complex and not always kind and tactful personality of Harwood (who more than once urges the Hoddinotts to 'burn these letters'), but numerous others which it might have been felt unwise to publish earlier, and from which not everyone - even Harwood herself - emerges unscathed. The collection is rich in insights not only into Harwood's mind, working methods, and circle, but also into the literary politics of one of the key periods in modern Australian poetry.

How long is Idle Talk?

Idle Talk by Alison Hoddinott is 181 pages long, and a total of 45,431 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Idle Talk Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 8 minutes to read Idle Talk aloud.

What Reading Level is Idle Talk?

Idle Talk is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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