It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Prairie City, Iowa by Douglas Bauer
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again. Bauer grew up "awkward with soil and with machines" in a small town east of Des Moines, As a teenager,...
Prairie City, Iowa by Douglas Bauer is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read Prairie City, Iowa aloud.
Prairie City, Iowa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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