A Memory of Light was split into three parts as the book length was too long.

Not unless it is going to grow to book length.

Tight Jeans is also one of his earlier stories, written while he was still concentrating on short fiction rather than novels and book length works.

But what is tolerable in a newspaper column quickly becomes tiresome at book length.

As a result this volume has a cursory feel to it: like an unfinished essay, blown up, through steroids, to book length.

Ms. Walker's admirers can rejoice that her silence did not extend to book length.

Never mind that this flimflam is padded to book length with 100 pages of irrelevant stories about other addicts.

Her most recent collection is Berestechko, a book length historical poem.

Expanded to book length from a New Yorker article, his narrative relates a 1985 visit not much longer than most vacations.

That sort of argument is almost impossible to sustain at book length, and Powers doesn't.