How Long to Read After All!

How Long Does it Take to Read After All!?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read After All! by Hugh Hood

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

Description

"After All!" contains the last of Hugh Hood's short stories, seventeen in all, written between September 1991 and December 1994. It was his practice to intersperse publication of short stories, essays, or other materials between the appearance of the individual novels in his ambitious series "The New Age / Le nouveau si?;cle," which appeared at two- or three-year intervals between 1975 and 2000. This collection should have been published in 1996 or 1998, but because of failing health in the later 1990s, he devoted all his energies to the completion of the "New Age" series, and thus never got around to presenting the typescript to a publisher. (Hood died, sadly, a few weeks before the publication of the final volume of the "New Age" series.) The stories in this collection, however, are not only complete in themselves but complete "as a collection." They are presented in the order in which they were written, which was the order in which he wanted them to appear. Like his earlier collections (from "Flying a Red Kite," 1987, onwards), these stories encompass a remarkable variety of tones. They include humorous stories of everyday life, fantasies, problem stories, satires on the excesses of modern civilization, documentary sketches, stories that amuse, stories that entertain, stories that set one thinking, stories that disturb. All are written with the stylistic elegance, and filled with the inquiring intelligence, that we have come to expect from Hood. Though written in the last decade of his life, they show him at the top of his form. Here we experience the flowering of one of the most skillful and probing Canadian practitioners of the short story as a subtle and concentrated literary form.

How long is After All!?

After All! by Hugh Hood is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read After All! Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read After All! aloud.

What Reading Level is After All!?

After All! is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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