How Long to Read Tales from a Tourist Town

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales from a Tourist Town?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Tales from a Tourist Town by C.B. McCarty

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

Description

¿What was she doing in an old Buick in the middle of nowhere? she asked herself. And with a priest and a flamenco dancer, no less. I mean, she¿d just met these two men and now she was involved in a murder, an art heist and God knows what else.¿ It is rare enough that an artist can bring to life a compelling fictional world in prose or in song. It's rarer still to bring one to life in both media simultaneously, but that is exactly what novelist and hit songwriter CB McCarty has done with his new novel and the ¿soundtrack¿ to the novel, ¿Tales From A Tourist Town.¿ McCarty has woven fascinating, richly drawn characters into a complex contemporary story of intrigue and romance set in the high desert hills of northern New Mexico, and accompanied it with a multi-artist album of his songs that further bring to life the people and plot of the novel. McCarty, a songwriter for the legendary Steve Miller Band and country superstar Martina McBride, has set his songs and story in the richly hued region that has been home to the first atom bomb, novelist D. H. Lawrence, artist Georgia O'Keefe, outlaw Billy the Kid--and the DeVargas family, whose 500-year history flows across the pages and the grooves of McCarty's marriage of artistic worlds. In "Tales From A Tourist Town," McCarty unveils the secretive and patriarchical world of this prominent Spanish-American dynasty which, for half a millennium, has controlled the morals, the money and the politics of New Mexico. Today, Senor Alberto DeVargas carries on the family tradition with absolute authority, drawing to his hacienda all modern-day conquistadors seeking today's equivalent of the ¿Seven Cities of Gold.¿ When Alberto brings flamenco dancers from Spain to perform at his extravagant Fiesta parties, his world of power and privilege opens to regional magazine photographer Ash McElroy, drawn to one of the gypsy dancers and then inexorably into a million-dollar art heist, a murder and more. From the high-dollar art galleries on Santa Fe's Canyon Road to the ancient Anasazi Indian caves, Ash discovers a side of New Mexico she's never known. Stir in a shooting in the cathedral, a strutting biker/bartender, smug police and a friar who fancies himself a Columbo with a collar, and you've got a recipe for a story as hot as the region's spiciest chilies. Through the pages of the novel and the grooves of its soundtrack, McCarty's readers and listeners are swept along on a one-of-a-kind journey through vividly drawn landscapes of a storied land and of the heart. ¿Ash knocked on the door and waited for the queen of the flamenco dancers and the mother of the man she was falling in love with. No response. She waited there for at least a minute when, finally, the door partially opened and there stood Maria Martinez. ¿What do you want¿ came her sharp query. ¿I¿d like to talk to you about Ramon. I was with him earlier today,¿ Ash explained. Maria thought about this for a moment and then opened the door wider and motioned Ash in with a quick wave of the hand. ¿Come,¿ is all she said and Ash walked into the mysterious and private world of Maria Martinez and her flamenco Gypsy clan.¿

How long is Tales from a Tourist Town?

Tales from a Tourist Town by C.B. McCarty is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales from a Tourist Town Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Tales from a Tourist Town aloud.

What Reading Level is Tales from a Tourist Town?

Tales from a Tourist Town 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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