How Long to Read No Place for an Angel: A Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read No Place for an Angel: A Novel?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read No Place for an Angel: A Novel by Elizabeth Spencer

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

Description

Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of midcentury America traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption in Kennedy-era America. Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" (Alice Munro) the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are these skills more evident than in her fourth novel, No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War America that follows two fracturing marriages—Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer, and Irene and Charles Waddell, a worldly pair involved with American policymaking in Italy—as they cross paths from the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York. Witty, mordant, but above all deeply perceptive of the secret emotional worlds of her characters, Spencer portrays the limitless ambition of the postwar world, the soaring rise of her characters, and, finally, their diminishing fortunes, which lead to smaller but firmer destinies.

How long is No Place for an Angel: A Novel?

No Place for an Angel: A Novel by Elizabeth Spencer is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read No Place for an Angel: A Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read No Place for an Angel: A Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is No Place for an Angel: A Novel?

No Place for an Angel: A Novel 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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