It takes the average reader 3 hours and 36 minutes to read Down to the Dirt by Joel Hynes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This debut novel from Canada, violently thrust into the space between Trainspotting and the writings of J.T. Leroy, features hard-edged protagonist Keith Kavanagh. With gritty accounts of sexual depravity, pyromania, substance abuse, and the botched mercy killing of poisoned cat, this dark and comic novel charts the escapades of Kavanagh from his early teens, coming of age in small-town Newfoundland, to his early twenties wandering the streets of Halifax in a demented, drunken hunt for his estranged girlfriend. Keith Kavanagh lost his virginity at 13 to a woman twice his age, and met his...
Down to the Dirt by Joel Hynes is 209 pages long, and a total of 54,131 words.
This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 55 minutes to read Down to the Dirt aloud.
Down to the Dirt is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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