It takes the average reader 8 hours and 42 minutes to read Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies by Jay Parini
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An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual Who's Who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt on down. The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one; a life of colourful...
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies by Jay Parini is 514 pages long, and a total of 130,556 words.
This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 160% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 53 minutes to read Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies aloud.
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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