It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read A Life on Paper by Edward Gauvin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Chteaureynaud is well known to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection the first to be translated into English introduces a distinct and dynamic voice to the Anglophone world. In many ways, Chteaureynaud is France's own Kurt Vonnegut, and his stories are as familiar as they are fantastic. A Life on Paper presents characters who struggle to communicate across the boundaries of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the real and the more-than-real. A young husband struggles with self-doubt and an ungainly set of angel wings in Icarus Saved from the Skies, '' even as his wife encourages him to embrace his transformation. In the title story, a father's obsession with his daughter leads him to keep her life captured in 93,284 unchanging photographs. While Chteaureynaud's stories examine the diffidence and cruelty we are sometimes capable of, they also highlight the humanity in the strangest of us and our deep appreciation for the mysterious
A Life on Paper by Edward Gauvin is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read A Life on Paper aloud.
A Life on Paper is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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