It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A “wonderful memoir” of a woman’s life as a fashion-magazine writer in 1950s and ’60s New York (Publishers Weekly). Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with eighty dollars, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, a copy of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a boyfriend she was worried might be involved with the Communists, and no idea how to live on her own. She moved to the Village because she had heard of it, and worked at Mademoiselle because that was where the employment agency sent her. In this evocative and unflinching book, Cantwell...
Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.
This makes it 72% 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 57 minutes to read Manhattan, When I Was Young aloud.
Manhattan, When I Was Young is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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