It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his father doesn't come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it. The bulk of the book has Ed teaming up with Uncle Ambrose, a former carny worker, and trying to find out who killed Ed's dad. But the title is as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a pulp. Author Brown won the Edgar award in 1947...
The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.
This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read The Fabulous Clipjoint aloud.
The Fabulous Clipjoint is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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