It takes the average reader 9 hours to read The Farringford Cadenza by Robert Donald Sutherland
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1947, Charles Philip Farringford, one of America's foremost composers, dies on a train returning home to New York after performing his as-yet-unpublished Fifth Piano Concerto. When his body arrives at Penn Station wearing pajama trousers backside front, there are two one-way tickets to New York in the sleeping compartment but no companion. Also missing is Farringford's suitcase, and with it the unique manuscript of the six-minute cadenza for solo piano that occurs in the concerto. Thirty-four years after Farringford's death the cadenza manuscript is found, temporally, almost immediately it is misplaced, or perhaps stolen. The Farringford Cadenza is a suspenseful, humorous literary mystery which subtly skews generic conventions to continually surprise readers with reversals of their assumptions and expectations. Beneath the surface, the novel explores the consequences of illusion and self-delusion, the many faces of deceit, and questions concerning people's ethical responsibilities with regard to art and culture.
The Farringford Cadenza by Robert Donald Sutherland is 540 pages long, and a total of 135,000 words.
This makes it 182% the length of the average book. It also has 165% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 17 minutes to read The Farringford Cadenza aloud.
The Farringford Cadenza is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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