How Long to Read Wicked City

How Long Does it Take to Read Wicked City?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read Wicked City by Clifford Browder

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

Description

Clifford Browder’s Wicked City is a collection of short fiction featuring a wide range of people surviving, and trying to fully realize themselves, in turbulent nineteenth-century New York. Among them are: <ul> <li>An ambitious young man given the rare opportunity to marry his boss’s daughter and advance in the firm, the only drawback being his secret preference for brief sexual encounters with men;</li> <li>A cartman hired to transport the anatomical collection of a respected professor of surgery, including a corpse in embalming fluid that, if discovered by the public, might well cause a riot;</li> <li>A young Chinaman who witnesses the murder of a compatriot and must decide how to survive and thrive among these savage round-faced barbarians;</li> <li>A woman so unnerved by the sinister growth of her garden that she asks her pastor to perform a full-blown exorcism;</li> <li>A ragpicker trudging the streets in a snowstorm who fights off drowsiness and fatigue with grandiose fantasies, bitter memories, and a desperate plea to her deceased mother for healing;</li> <li>A buckskinned Westerner with a Sioux arrow through his hat who dazzles the city with his stories of grizzlies and buffalo hunts and wild women, while limping sometimes with one leg and sometimes with the other.</li> </ul> Whatever their hopes and fears, Browder’s characters cannot live without New York. They bear witness to the city’s wild diversity, its intensity, its creativity. They are New York. Getting to know them, readers will better understand this astonishing metropolis, unique yesterday and unique today, the most exciting city in the world.

How long is Wicked City?

Wicked City by Clifford Browder is 158 pages long, and a total of 40,764 words.

This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Wicked City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 42 minutes to read Wicked City aloud.

What Reading Level is Wicked City?

Wicked 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.

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

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