How Long to Read The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

How Long Does it Take to Read The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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

Description

Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales ("The Glass Shoe," "The Gingerbread Variations," "The Little Match Girl," "Don Juan Is a Woman," and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication--such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here," Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet." Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.

How long is The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales?

The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon is 196 pages long, and a total of 50,176 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 34 minutes to read The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales aloud.

What Reading Level is The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales?

The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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