Clay's Quilt by Silas House
Published 2001 · 80,300 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Clay's Quilt to read?
Clay's Quilt 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: 42 out of 100
- Appalachian vernacular.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, plain sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 40 out of 100
- Alternating close third persons, reliable.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The quilt is the governing figure.
- Ironic distance: 35 out of 100
- Little irony; the register is sincere.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Mostly resolved.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, linear.
How Clay's Quilt is regarded
Clay's Quilt holds a literary regard score of 37 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.