Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
118064
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
419
Points per Page
0.047733
Description
Joan is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new poet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter and skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts.