TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Published 2013 · 328 pages · 82,000 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Coming-of-Age, Literary Fiction
How hard is TransAtlantic to read?
TransAtlantic scores 60 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: 58 out of 100
- Irish-American vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- McCann lyrical.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- History, peace, connection.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- Irish-American history.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- Multiple timelines.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Atlantic, letters, flight.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Engaged emotion.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Generations connected.
- Structural complexity: 65 out of 100
- Multiple timelines.
How TransAtlantic is regarded
TransAtlantic holds a literary regard score of 59 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.