How Long to Read The Genteel Poor

How Long Does it Take to Read The Genteel Poor?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Genteel Poor by William Karl Thomas

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

Description

The fourteen-year-old girl who appears on the cover of this book was Katherine, the person around whom all the other characters in this book revolve. Born at the turn of the 20th century, she faced the transition of being the daughter of a wealthy New Orleans doctor to being the single mother of three children at the height of the Great Depression. This memoir is told by the youngest child. Raised in a cultured environment, but driven by hunger to go to work at the age of eight, his world was shaped before he was born by Mimi, his witchcraft practicing maternal grandmother, and Dr. William J. Schmidt, his wealthy and talented grandfather. His survival was in part made possible by Dr. Horton, the cranky country doctor who played God and Robin Hood in this small coastal town; his Aunt Thelma, who left the nunnery to become a successful executive in New York; his Grandmother Lola, who lost the family fortune but gave refuge to her daughter and her children; and his millionaire Godfather, H. Grady Meador, whose wife prevented her husband from adopting his Godchild. This story of four generations of a colorful and talented family spanning the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, deals with the social and ethnic evolution of this unique and colorful era of Americana, and culminates with the narrator marrying his high school teacher. Set in Bay St. Louis and New Orleans a half-century before these areas were devastated by Hurricane Katrina, William Karl Thomas has written this memoir of his childhood with the same classic American prose style as his first memoir, Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Prophet, about his ten-year collaboration with the most controversial comic of the 20th century. With it he has offered another very intimate and revealing slice of American history with all the good and bad, the agony and ecstasy of growing up among the Genteel Poor. About the Author: William Karl Thomas was born 1/25/33 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, a small Gulf Coast town in which Tennessee Williams lived and wrote about in his works. Thomas divorced after a four-year childless marriage to his former high school teacher. His checkered background included being a cocktail pianist in New Orleans' French Quarter, four years in the Air Force where he saw combat in Korea, a magazine-fashion-entertainment photographer, a photo journalist, a creenwriter, a feature cinematographer, an industrial film producer, and a public relations executive. His first book, Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Prophet, covers his 10-year collaboration with the most controversial comedian of the 20th century from before Bruce's fame to the night he died. Thomas currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he continues work on a variety of creative projects.

How long is The Genteel Poor?

The Genteel Poor by William Karl Thomas 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 Genteel Poor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Genteel Poor aloud.

What Reading Level is The Genteel Poor?

The Genteel Poor 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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