How Long to Read 69 Ways to Play the Blues

How Long Does it Take to Read 69 Ways to Play the Blues?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 33 minutes to read 69 Ways to Play the Blues by Jürg Laederach

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The phone refuses to ring. I sit here on 82nd Street; no, on 83rd; no, on 81st; I forget where I am. The phone refuses to ring, to tear me out of this enforced solitude, which I know only too well. This solitude that makes me sick and stirs me to tears, but surely not tears of compassion. A call is bound to come any minute now up from the Village and afford me the company I desperately desire. The phone isn't ringing. The bell doesn't work.Written after the Swiss writer Jurg Laederach's third trip to New York in the late 1980s, 69 Ways was hailed by award-winning author Walter Abish as a text predictive of "a Europe to come, when borders dissolve." Like Alain-Robbe Grillet, Georges Perec, and the great Oulipo writers, Laederach constructs seamless narratives based on sly compositional strategies. The reader is only somewhat aware of the rules of the game. Transposed to America, Laederach's texts, Abish argues, "function as a scanning device. Characters vanish, reappear. There is something relentless... Everything is transitory. No sentimentality. No clinging to the past. Everything is on the verge of being discarded. Everything is on the verge of dissolution. Everything resonates with imminent change."

How long is 69 Ways to Play the Blues?

69 Ways to Play the Blues by Jürg Laederach is 152 pages long, and a total of 38,304 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read 69 Ways to Play the Blues Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 29 minutes to read 69 Ways to Play the Blues aloud.

What Reading Level is 69 Ways to Play the Blues?

69 Ways to Play the Blues is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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