It takes the average reader 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Waiting for the News by Leo Litwak
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in Detroit in the late thirties and early forties, Waiting for the News tells of a man driven by an almost religious fanaticism about trade unionism. Jake Gottlieb, a laundry driver with grand designs, spins seditious dreams of a strike against all laundry companies, beginning with his own. The world he take son is tough and nasty. Hired fists are always ready to smash the heads of stubborn troublemakers, fists that are no less brutal because they happen to be Jewish. Knowing instinctively that his maniacal devotion to principal would inevitably loose the beasts inside him, Jake makes his...
Waiting for the News by Leo Litwak is 315 pages long, and a total of 80,325 words.
This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 18 minutes to read Waiting for the News aloud.
Waiting for the News is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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