How Long to Read Song Noir

By Alex Harvey

How Long Does it Take to Read Song Noir?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Song Noir by Alex Harvey

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

Description

A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waits’s formative decade in Los Angeles. Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’s career, when he lived, wrote, and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983. Starting his songwriting career in the seventies, Waits absorbed Los Angeles’s wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the city’s literary and film noir traditions...

How long is Song Noir?

Song Noir by Alex Harvey is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Song Noir Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Song Noir aloud.

What Reading Level is Song Noir?

Song Noir 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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