It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, star of 1950s cowboy B-movies, has been dead for 47 years. He saw her first in Last Stage to El Paso, a lowlife black-and-whie Western, and has been unable to think of anything else since. Desperate, Goodman invokes the help of his old friend, Istvan Fallock, to see if they can't somehow coax a videotape to yield the 25-year-old Justine. So with a test tube, distillation of frog, a soupcon of primordial soup mixed with a suspension of disbelief, they summon her back to...
Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.
This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read Linger Awhile aloud.
Linger Awhile is suitable for students ages 10 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.
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