How Long to Read Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

How Long Does it Take to Read Madame Bovary of the Suburbs?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry

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

Description

The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to. But she's bored. She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal. Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson

How long is Madame Bovary of the Suburbs?

Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Madame Bovary of the Suburbs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Madame Bovary of the Suburbs aloud.

What Reading Level is Madame Bovary of the Suburbs?

Madame Bovary of the Suburbs 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.

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