How Long to Read Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

How Long Does it Take to Read Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 18 minutes to read Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados

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

Description

There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling my daughter. So begins "Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn", which gives its title to Harvey Swados's collected stories. In this beautiful and heartbreaking novella, Swados describes a generation "aflame with romance and disillusion," in search of pleasures and answers, and shows how the demands of love and life temper its hopes and fears. It is a perennial story, told by Swados in straightforward and lyrical prose and with tremendous sympathy, and without doubt one of the most enduring achievements of postwar American fiction. Harvey Swados's many splendid stories speak of work, friendship, and family. They are about the common world, as well as the final loneliness from which the common world cannot protect us. And yet Swados, as Richard Gilman has written, was above all concerned with "the breakthrough into true feeling, the attainment of moral dignity, and the linking up with others through compassion."

How long is Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn?

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados is 433 pages long, and a total of 109,549 words.

This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 134% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 58 minutes to read Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn aloud.

What Reading Level is Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn?

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn 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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