How Long to Read Short Takes

By Michael Meltsner

How Long Does it Take to Read Short Takes?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 46 minutes to read Short Takes by Michael Meltsner

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

Description

Formerly a hardcover from Random House, Michael Meltsner's Short Takes is available again in eBook format. Short Takes is Meltsner's unsettling first novel about a lawyer for whom love and work are always intertwined, a man who no longer believes in rules but continues to live by them. Jeremy is a lover who refuses to let go, a New Yorker at odds with the harsh pace and fractious spirit of his city until in the end he negotiates his own terms. “Short Takes, Michael Meltsner's engaging and extremely well written first novel, creates a character of enormous vitality and considerable charm: funny, caring, searching and all-too-humanly paradoxical.” — Boston Globe Crisscrossing Manhattan, Jeremy, a New York lawyer uneasy with success, confronts his doubts through a series of encounters with the hard-edged, unpredictable life of the city. Revealed through these meetings, friendships and events are war stories of the courtroom and of the analytic couch; memories of Lenny Bruce and Jackie Robinson; the wiles of clever lawyers, Washington in-fighters, of a boss called the Soft Killer, of celebrity poker players and would-be reformers; recollections of frontier Israel and rural Georgia in the sixties. Behind Jeremy lies a brash West Side youth spent amid ethnic gangs and McCarthyism, the special ways of an only child, an idealist out of phase.

How long is Short Takes?

Short Takes by Michael Meltsner is 164 pages long, and a total of 41,656 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Short Takes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Short Takes aloud.

What Reading Level is Short Takes?

Short Takes is suitable for students ages 10 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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