Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Published 2012 · 448 pages · 48,376 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Wish You Were Here to read?
Wish You Were Here scores 57 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: 55 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Swift prose.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- War, family, England.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Devon, Iraq War.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Holiday, war, wish.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Elegiac tone.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Grief processed.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How Wish You Were Here is regarded
Wish You Were Here holds a literary regard score of 58 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.