It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Many readers still claim this haunting, atmospheric novel of Michael Ondaatje's as their first love - a novel as sensual and erotic today as ever it was. At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 30 piano players. But it had only one man who played the cornet like Buddy Bolden - he who cut hair by day at N. Joseph's Shaving Parlor, and at night played jazz, unleashing an unforgettable wildness and passion in crowded rooms. Self-destructively in love with two women, he embodied all the dire claims that music...
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Coming Through Slaughter aloud.
Coming Through Slaughter is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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