How Long to Read A.m

By Michael Ayres

How Long Does it Take to Read A.m?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read A.m by Michael Ayres

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

Description

a.m. achieves something quite remarkable: a calm that is a sublimated urgency, a meditation on distance that opens into a habitat for human intimacy: ‘the emptiness that forms before love comes’. Distance here is a prerequisite for relation, and this writing is in relentless and passionate pursuit, courting ‘you’ for its extended family, placating ‘all of these things with their gaping beaks / of light and shape and weight, all asking / not to be left out’. One of the many joys of this artful construction is that it is a public building, at pains to resist ‘an outmoded binary opposition between luxury and necessity’. Mandelstam claimed ‘To read Pasternak’s poetry is to clear your throat, to fortify your breathing, to fill your lungs; surely such poetry could provide a cure for tuberculosis’. In a.m., Ayres has set his sights on the common cold.

How long is A.m?

A.m by Michael Ayres is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A.m Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read A.m aloud.

What Reading Level is A.m?

A.m is suitable for students ages 12 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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