It takes the average reader 9 hours and 2 minutes to read The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the Rosenbergs are put to death.
The Public Burning by Robert Coover is 534 pages long, and a total of 135,636 words.
This makes it 180% the length of the average book. It also has 166% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 21 minutes to read The Public Burning aloud.
The Public Burning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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