How Long to Read The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel by Jacob Bacharach

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

Description

A biting, tragicomic fable for our neurotic times, The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates conquers Tolstoy’s adage that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Is there any father worse than Abraham? Are there any unhappier families than the first family of Genesis? In the follow-up to his acclaimed debut, The Bend of the World, Jacob Bacharach enlivens these existential questions in a madcap tale that replaces the biblical Ur with New York City, the land of Canaan with the rust-belt river valleys of western Pennsylvania. Told in a comic voice that Sam Lipsyte once called "shrewd, deadpan, and dirty," The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates hilariously transposes the biblical story of our first patriarchs into a modern world even madder than the ancient Middle East. Fleeing from a failed relationship, Isabel Giordani leaves Manhattan for Pittsburgh to accept a job at the underachieving nonprofit Future Cities Institute and insinuates herself into the aimless lives of Isaac Mayer and his father, Abbie. An architect turned crooked real estate developer, Abbie claims to be chasing after an unexpected heavenly vision—one that inevitably embroils the Mayer family within the political and familial machinations of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Bacharach explores the perpetually fraught themes of love, family, God, and real estate in an irreverent and unnervingly tender tale that Edan Lepucki celebrates as "simultaneously funny and tragic, sacred and profane…wise and clever from the first page to the last."

How long is The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel?

The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel by Jacob Bacharach 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 The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: A Novel?

The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates: 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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