How Long to Read Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones

How Long Does it Take to Read Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 31 minutes to read Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones by June Akers Seese

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

Description

"The fact is, June Akers Seese refuses to lie. When her eye lights on something, she arrests it with a photographic infallibility that is simply breathtaking. She writes Hemingway's best declarative sentence through the lens of Kafka and the searing elegance of Joan Didion. Yet, on top of everything, she manages to be very, very funny-often excruciatingly so. Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones, her latest novel, embodies vintage Seese and her all-too-human, all-too-like-us, unforgiving domestic landscape: inside our houses, insides our heads, inside our hearts." -Joseph Bathanti, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University In this novel, June Akers Seese writes of two retired Detroit teachers and their retarded daughter, Melody, who lives with them and works at a downtown hotel folding napkins and polishing tabletops. Melody's sisters and brother have moved on. One sister to Japan to study languages and literature; another to a boarding house on the Wayne State University campus where she collects Master's degrees that go nowhere and earns her living as a sometimes waitress. Their brother has fled to Alaska where land is cheap and his carpentry skills valued. All approaching 40, these offspring have no plans to marry or return home. They are all trapped in a dream of escaping the responsibility of Melody when their parents die.

How long is Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones?

Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones by June Akers Seese is 91 pages long, and a total of 22,841 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones aloud.

What Reading Level is Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones?

Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones 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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