How Long to Read The Hero's Body: A Memoir

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hero's Body: A Memoir?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Hero's Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi

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

Description

A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.

How long is The Hero's Body: A Memoir?

The Hero's Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hero's Body: A Memoir Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Hero's Body: A Memoir aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hero's Body: A Memoir?

The Hero's Body: A Memoir 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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