Beyond Deserving by Sandra Scofield
Published 1991 · 322 pages · 92,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Beyond Deserving to read?
Beyond Deserving scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Clear American prose.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Scofield's accessible sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Working-class family questions.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Texas family detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Family, desert carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Scofield writes with sympathy.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Family continues.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Family narrative.
How Beyond Deserving is regarded
Beyond Deserving holds a literary regard score of 50 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.