How Long to Read Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway

How Long Does it Take to Read Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway by Alexandra Oliver

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

Description

A CANADIAN POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE NATIONAL POST WINNER OF THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD “Alexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiver—all of them sharpened to a fine point. This is an excellent and entertaining collection.”—TIMOTHY STEELE In Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life: They all had names like Jennifer or Lynne or Katherine; they all had bone-blonde hair, that wet, flat cut with bangs. They pulled your chair from underneath you, shoved their small fists in your face. Too soon, you knew it would begin, those minkish teeth like shrapnel in the air, the Bacchic taunts, the Herculean dare, their soccer cleats against your porcine shin, that laugh, which sounded like a hundred birds escaping from a gunshot through the reeds— and now you have to face it all again: the joyful freckled faces lost for words in supermarkets, as those red hands squeeze your own. It’s been so long! They say. Amen. Oliver’s poems, which she describes as “text-based home movies,” unveil a cinematic vision of suburbia at once comical and poignant: framed to renew our curiosity in the mundane and pressing rhyme and metre to their utmost, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway is a five-star performance from Canada’s new formalist sensation. “Alexandra Oliver is in full command of a saber wit and impeccable ear. Lucky the reader along for the ride.”—JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT “Brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice.”—CHARLES MARTIN Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, Canada and divides her time between Toronto and Glasgow, Scotland. Her most recent book is Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (Biblioasis). She currently teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

How long is Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway?

Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway by Alexandra Oliver is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway aloud.

What Reading Level is Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway?

Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway is suitable for students ages 8 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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