How Long to Read Housekeeping

How Long Does it Take to Read Housekeeping?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

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

Description

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and...

How long is Housekeeping?

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Housekeeping Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Housekeeping aloud.

What Reading Level is Housekeeping?

Housekeeping 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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