How Long to Read Boomfell

How Long Does it Take to Read Boomfell?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Boomfell by Douglas Hobbie

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

Description

Everyone, it seems to Charles Boomfell, has moved on to another world of worries. His break with the past no sooner appears complete than the past recurs. Eliot Singer, his colleague - and betrayer - from seven years before, calls from Toronto needing to talk, "appealing to a loyalty and concern that their relationship hardly warranted" in Boomfell's view. Brilliant, controlling Singer, who had always "shrewdly and steadfastly careered ahead according to his own schedule of set goals," has lost his confidence, maybe more. His obsession with a young woman named Lucky has unhinged him, and Singer's invasion of the Boomfell world, by turns funny and wrenching, amounts to a one-man inquisition of middle-class life. The advent of Singer provokes Boomfell to pursue another phantom from years before, a woman both he and Singer knew intimately, a quest that inevitably turns the seeker back on himself. While Boomfell remains caught up in the past, his enterprising wife, Val, ventures toward fresh possibilities through a new friend, April, a young woman whose presence here, in voice and vision, provides a telling counterpoint to Boomfell's disenchanted brooding and Singer's manic self-absorption. Quick with energy and wit, Boomfell is a richly textured and deeply perceptive novel about marriage and passion, friendship and loss, the vanities of men and the enduring strengths of women. It articulates the cherished hopes, profound disappointments, and moral dilemmas of middle-class life in our times.

How long is Boomfell?

Boomfell by Douglas Hobbie is 250 pages long, and a total of 62,500 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Boomfell Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read Boomfell aloud.

What Reading Level is Boomfell?

Boomfell 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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