How Long to Read Butcher a Hog

How Long Does it Take to Read Butcher a Hog?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Butcher a Hog by Brian O'Sullivan

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

Description

Butcher a Hog is a moving fictionalized memoir that recounts one man's struggle with addiction, homelessness, and overwhelming adversity as his life unfolds in a sustained series of misadventures and noble failures that encapsulates his attempt to survive against all odds. Detailing two decades in the life of working-class, undocumented Irish emigrant, Butcher a Hog follows Liam McCarthy from his arrival in New York City in 1985 through a litany of shadowy living situations in Irish-American neighborhoods -from Boston to the Bronx-and traces his efforts to forge a livelihood amidst the realities of marginal employment, manual labor, and chronic substance abuse. With honesty and trenchant Irish humor, the novel shares both warm-hearted moments and bleak, dark times, culminating twenty years later with forty-one-year-old Liam facing an uncertain future of voluntary institutionalization in order to receive a prescribed round of ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy. Written in a direct, confessional tone, Butcher a Hog moves across decades and generations to revisit episodes in Liam's youth in his hometown in Kerry, introducing a poignant story of secret abuse and childhood pain shaded with family and social dysfunction. Even the tale of Liam's first communion becomes a backdrop for diminished expectations and self-enforced alienation that will underscore his failings in adult life, as he inevitably moves from one fiasco to another, each time somehow managing to transcend the latest in a string of personal disasters. Throughout it is a testament to one man's life and the relationships he formed in the course of trying to move past or run away from a haunting specter of depression and self-destruction. Butcher a Hog tells a meaningful and memorable story of a misguided young man who is forced to immigrate and find a way to survive on the streets of New York in the 1980s that along the way reveals a comical, unrelentingly honest path of personal discovery.

How long is Butcher a Hog?

Butcher a Hog by Brian O'Sullivan is 434 pages long, and a total of 110,236 words.

This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 135% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Butcher a Hog Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 2 minutes to read Butcher a Hog aloud.

What Reading Level is Butcher a Hog?

Butcher a Hog 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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