It takes the average reader 16 hours and 49 minutes to read Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290) by Mary McCarthy
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This first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation In 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature—“mutual plagiarism,” she called it—became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents...
Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290) by Mary McCarthy is 994 pages long, and a total of 252,476 words.
This makes it 335% the length of the average book. It also has 309% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 59 minutes to read Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290) aloud.
Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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