It takes the average reader 13 hours and 16 minutes to read The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction (Mr Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more...
The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader is 784 pages long, and a total of 199,136 words.
This makes it 265% the length of the average book. It also has 243% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 8 minutes to read The Life of Saul Bellow aloud.
The Life of Saul Bellow is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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