How Long to Read Suburban Boy

How Long Does it Take to Read Suburban Boy?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Suburban Boy by Peter Doobinin

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

Description

At thirty-nine, Peter returns to Bayview, the Baby Boom suburb where he spent his formative years. He checks into a crummy hotel and decides, in a moment of inspiration, to seek out his long lost childhood friend, Willy Smithberger. He’s banking on Smithberger. He’s hoping if he reunites with Smithberger he might connect to something, that something might be revealed. He’s hoping he might find a way-out of his long-festering pain and suffering and despair. But it’s not as simple as he might’ve wished. Smithberger proves to be something of a white whale, a difficult-to-apprehend quarry. On writing Suburban Boy: I’ve always thought I was fortunate to have grown up in the Baby Boom suburbs of Long Island. Mine was a decidedly middleclass suburb, overflowing with kids. The days were marked by the sounds and images of the sixties, Cronkite announcing JFK’s death, the Beatles, protestors slamming the Viet Nam war. My sense of life was formed in that atmosphere, in the troubled environment of my suburban family, in the strange days that followed. In writing Suburban Boy I was interested in digging, as deeply as possible, into my feelings about these things, that place, that time. At its heart, the novel is about two subjects that have always been important to me: friendship and the idea of home.

How long is Suburban Boy?

Suburban Boy by Peter Doobinin is 343 pages long, and a total of 86,779 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Suburban Boy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 54 minutes to read Suburban Boy aloud.

What Reading Level is Suburban Boy?

Suburban Boy 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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