How Long to Read The Lonely Hunter

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lonely Hunter?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 20 minutes to read The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr

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

Description

The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.

How long is The Lonely Hunter?

The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr is 680 pages long, and a total of 170,000 words.

This makes it 229% the length of the average book. It also has 208% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lonely Hunter Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 28 minutes to read The Lonely Hunter aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lonely Hunter?

The Lonely Hunter 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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