How Long to Read The Lonesome Bodybuilder

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lonesome Bodybuilder?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya

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

Description

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and find a doorway to liberation.

How long is The Lonesome Bodybuilder?

The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lonesome Bodybuilder Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Lonesome Bodybuilder aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lonesome Bodybuilder?

The Lonesome Bodybuilder 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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