Silver's City by Maurice Leitch
Published 1981 · 180 pages · 45,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Silver's City to read?
Silver's City scores 51 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: 50 out of 100
- Urban vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Kelman's style.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Urban life, survival.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Glasgow detail.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- City life.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Working-class view.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Open conclusion.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Straightforward narrative.
How Silver's City is regarded
Silver's City 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.