It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Cigar Box Banjo by Paul Quarrington
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it's made along the way. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with a cult band; and his incarnation, in middle age,...
Cigar Box Banjo by Paul Quarrington is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.
This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Cigar Box Banjo aloud.
Cigar Box Banjo is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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