It takes the average reader 7 hours and 35 minutes to read Shelf Life by C. K. Stead
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What ghost was being appeased? What wrong was being righted or sin atoned for? I didn’t know. It was all, this writing business – and had been since it first began when I was still at school – mysterious, possibly even neurotic. I knew only that for a moment the world which ‘out there’ seemed so imperfect, so ‘fallen’, so much less than the heart desired, ‘in here’ had been called to order. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, letters and diaries, lectures and opinion...
Shelf Life by C. K. Stead is 452 pages long, and a total of 113,904 words.
This makes it 153% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 22 minutes to read Shelf Life aloud.
Shelf Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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