How to pronounce“picaresque”in English

And so you'll just hear-- I'm going to read, really it's just two pages-- but it looked like three pages-- from this far into the book.And so the book spans 10 years, and it's what you would call a picaresque novel, which is something that follows a character or movingthrough social strata. So there's a lot of these types of books about male characters, but very few that have female leads.