It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Short Stories Are Not Real Life by David R. Slavitt
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac—this collection reflects a writer in admirable control of his craft. The title story (complete with footnotes á la The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction) braids together the tidy conventions of fiction and the brutal reality of New York as a writing teacher ponders s student’s sexually explicit story that may—or may not—be autobiographical. In “The Impostor” a writer’s brother exploits the legerdemain of fiction in a series of ever-bolder...
Short Stories Are Not Real Life by David R. Slavitt is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.
This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Short Stories Are Not Real Life aloud.
Short Stories Are Not Real Life is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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