How Long to Read Sweet Ruin

How Long Does it Take to Read Sweet Ruin?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 22 minutes to read Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland

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

Description

Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion. With what Robert Pinsky has called “the saving vulgarity of American poetry,” Hoagland’s small biographies of destruction reveal that defeat is a natural prelude to grace and loss a kind of threshold to freedom. “A remarkable book. Without any rhetorical straining, with a disarming witty directness, these poems manage to transform every subject they touch, from love to politics, reaching out from the local and the personal to place the...

How long is Sweet Ruin?

Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland is 82 pages long, and a total of 20,664 words.

This makes it 28% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sweet Ruin Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 52 minutes to read Sweet Ruin aloud.

What Reading Level is Sweet Ruin?

Sweet Ruin is suitable for students ages 10 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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