Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Published 2018 · 215 pages · 117,500 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Sight to read?
Sight scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 52 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Greengrass's spare prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Sight, blindness, perception.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Australian setting.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Fragmented perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Vision, light, seeing.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Detached observation.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Ambiguous ending.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Fragmented narrative.
How Sight is regarded
Sight holds a literary regard score of 52 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.