How Long to Read The Flicker of Old Dreams

How Long Does it Take to Read The Flicker of Old Dreams?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson

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

Description

High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction • Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel • WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction • Montana Book Award Honor Book With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach’s Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father’s mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. "The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets . . . " Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father’s mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject’s life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away—a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim’s younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary—reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely—strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in the American West, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.

How long is The Flicker of Old Dreams?

The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Flicker of Old Dreams Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Flicker of Old Dreams aloud.

What Reading Level is The Flicker of Old Dreams?

The Flicker of Old Dreams 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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