His take on the theme is clever, alarming and blackly funny, although he spins out to more than 300 pages a tale that Borges would have elegantly dispatched in three. (here)
While reading an article, I saw this sentence above and I can't understand the structure of the marked phrase, especially the position of "300 pages".
I think this version seems more natural : "spins out a tale to more than 300 pages"