How Long to Read Swallowed

How Long Does it Take to Read Swallowed?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Swallowed by Réjean Ducharme

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

Description

In 1966, Réjean Ducharme, then a 24-year-old unknown, published L'Avalée des avalés, this debut novel that would go on to serve as a zeitgeist for several generations of French-Canadian readers. Over the last fifty years, it has become a cornerstone for a culture, taught in high schools and universities as the foundation of the modern Québécois literature. Astoundingly, an English-language edition of the book hasn't been in print since 1968, and has never before been available in Canada. At nine years old, Berenice feels trapped by home, family, and dogmas both real and invented. Precocious and over-intelligent, she despises her dysfunctional parents too viciously, loves her brother Christian too passionately, and follows the logical pirouettes of her imagination to conclusions too dangerous. She lives on a secluded island, where she hatches plans to run away with Christian and escape her mother's needy overtures for affection. When on the cusp of puberty Berenice becomes too wild for even her parents to control, she's sent to live in New York with her father's ultra-religious relatives where, pushed to confine her impulses, she instead forces herself forward to new extremes. Gripping and hallucinatory, Swallowed is every bit as shocking and relevant today as it was upon first publication in 1966.

How long is Swallowed?

Swallowed by Réjean Ducharme is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Swallowed Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Swallowed aloud.

What Reading Level is Swallowed?

Swallowed 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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