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Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 4.8
Points 16.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 106069
Points per Word 0.000151
Page Count 337
Points per Page 0.047478

Description

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his daughters to his ancestral home on the stark Newfoundland coast, where the local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life.