How Long to Read Understanding Diane Johnson

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Diane Johnson?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Understanding Diane Johnson by Carolyn A. Durham

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

Description

Understanding Diane Johnson is a biographical and critical study of a quintessential American novelist who has devoted forty-five years to writing about French and American culture. Johnson, who was nominated for the National Book Award three times and the Pulitzer Prize twice, has been a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books since the 1970s and is the author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction volumes. Carolyn A. Durham explores Johnson's fiction and nonfiction works, emphasizing that setting is key to the construction of Johnson's literary world, a theme displayed throughout her eleven novels. Johnson is well known as a comic novelist who addresses serious social problems. Durham outlines Johnson's continued exploration of women's lives and her experimentation with varied forms of narrative technique and genre parody in the detective novels The Shadow Knows and Lying Low, both award-winning novels. Durham examines Johnson's reinvention of the international novel of manners—inherited from Henry James and Edith Wharton—in her best-selling Franco-American trilogy: Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L'Affaire. As the first book-length study of this distinguished American writer, Understanding Diane Johnson surveys an extensive body of work and draws critical attention to a well-published, widely read author who was the winner of the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Fiction in 1997.

How long is Understanding Diane Johnson?

Understanding Diane Johnson by Carolyn A. Durham is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Diane Johnson Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Understanding Diane Johnson aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding Diane Johnson?

Understanding Diane Johnson is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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