How Long to Read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 10 minutes to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Junot Díaz

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

Description

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

How long is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)?

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Junot Díaz is 370 pages long, and a total of 92,500 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)?

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) 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.

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

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