It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read On Being Blue by William H. Gass
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and...
On Being Blue by William H. Gass is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.
This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read On Being Blue aloud.
On Being Blue is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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