How Long to Read The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel by Alan Gould

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

Description

Claude Boon and Henry Luck, young poets in quest of their muses, cut a swathe through the cultural capitals and byways of Europe and Asia towards the end of the Cold War. The Poets' Stairwell revitalises the picaresque novel. Vibrant, sensuous and layered, it has a tumble of characters and pranks. Anarchist puckish Beamish, the Isadora Duncan-like Eva, class warrior, Branca, a libidinous translator of poems with Jelena, her iconoclast daughter, Luc Courlai a jailed French philosopher, Titus the Yankee acrobat who cradles his gun like a baby, Mr Hark a saintly Irish funeral director, Willi a German truck driver versed in Thomas Aquinas and sensible Rhee, Henry's girlfriend-amongst others. Behind this company lives a virtual one of poets and philosophers from Yeats to Plato, attending as time and place invoke them. Our picaros' adventures allow Alan Gould to discuss poetic inspiration from womb to self-conscious maturity. The tale of Martha the American plumber will make you cry. There is Sir John Cue the obstetrician who delivers Boon twice across a lifetime to round out the plot. And the meeting with Ted Hughes is not to be missed.

How long is The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel?

The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel by Alan Gould is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque Novel?

The Poets' Stairwell: A Picaresque 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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