It takes the average reader 8 hours and 44 minutes to read Billie Holiday by Donald Clarke
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday's paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength." Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews...
Billie Holiday by Donald Clarke is 508 pages long, and a total of 131,064 words.
This makes it 171% the length of the average book. It also has 160% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 56 minutes to read Billie Holiday aloud.
Billie Holiday is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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