How Long to Read To the City

How Long Does it Take to Read To the City?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read To the City by Gillian Tindall

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

Description

Joe Beech, a London publisher, is in his fifties. Strong and healthy, married for twenty-five years with two grown children, with many friends and attractive to women, his life would seem good âe" yet he is haunted by a sense of pain and foreboding. A family skiing holiday in Austria with friends seems to promise respite, yet under the brightness of the snow, the physical exhilaration, the shared jokes and memories from other holidays, something dark still seems to be working. Whom or what are threatened? His children? His sonâe(tm)s beautiful girlfriend? His marriage? An old friend? Himself? In the six days in the mountains which, physically and temporally, form the bookâe(tm)s compass, Joe finds himself travelling far back in his mind to re-visit the past: as a young child in 1939 he was despatched from this same country to the safety of England by his Jewish parents, never to return except as a stranger. For him, Vienna, his birthplace, has become loaded with the significance of a city known only from dreams, and the prospect of spending some days there after the holiday âe" and secretly meeting a woman-friend there âe" fills him with both excitement and dread. In what sense will this be the journeyâe(tm)s end? What, finally, is waiting there for him? Gillian Tindall has always been interested in the way in which people are governed by past events, by their own perception of those events and by their complex relationships with places. To The City is one of her finest and most subtly constructed novel to date. âe~Remarkable for its penetration into another world, another life.âe(tm) Spectator âe~Tindallâe(tm)s novel is powerful, intricate, skilled and moving.âe(tm) Publishing News âe~Desperately true to life . . . wholly convincing, full of thought, feeling and wisdom.âe(tm) Sunday Times

How long is To the City?

To the City by Gillian Tindall is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read To the City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read To the City aloud.

What Reading Level is To the City?

To the City is suitable for students ages 10 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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