How Long to Read Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress

How Long Does it Take to Read Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 13 minutes to read Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress by John Lennard

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

Description

Mosley's novels chronicling the investigations of Easy Rawlins chart Californian history from 1948, echoing Chandler (and John D. MacDonald) while challenging Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. He has also written other crime and SF novels, Young Adult fiction, a memoir, and activist non-fiction, and is widely involved in cultural and educational projects promoting writing by people of colour. Devil in a Blue Dress is the first novel in Mosley's outstanding 'Easy' Rawlins series. The Notes in this book provide an overview of Mosley's career and the series, give historical and literary backgrounds to the novel (including Chandler, Himes, Pinkerton Men and Private Eyes, Hollywood's Gumshoes, and the 'GI Bill'), and consider the film adaptation of Devil. Chapter by chapter Annotations detail allusions, slang, musical references, flora and fauna, and fashion, while disentangling Mosley's real and fictive Los Angeles. The Essay is 'In the Mortgage of his Skin', and uses Walcott's and Lamming's great phrase to ask about Easy's purest passion, the house that is his castle. The Bibliography covers all Mosley's work, with critical material on him and on (African-American) crime writing.

How long is Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress?

Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress by John Lennard is 73 pages long, and a total of 18,469 words.

This makes it 25% the length of the average book. It also has 23% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 40 minutes to read Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress aloud.

What Reading Level is Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress?

Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress is suitable for students ages 8 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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