How Long to Read Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

How Long Does it Take to Read Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home by John Bayley

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

Description

A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol. Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. Here, in Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home, Bayley tells the painful, inspirational, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple with his fate as a man by beginning life anew in his mid-seventies. Like millions of other widows and widowers, Bayley, as he relates it, found himself emotionally unprepared for the responsibilities and burdens that confront people who suddenly find themselves alone. He hadn't realized how differently you are treated when you are not part of a couple, and how you must learn to respond to friends, family members, and total strangers in completely different ways. With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful obbligato in the background, Bayley describes the pitfalls a widower must face as he ventures out into the newly virgin world beyond his front door. Finding comfort in recording the day-to-day calamities that marked his reentry into the real world, Bayley uses surprising humor—reflected here in the vivid depictions of his new suitors, Margot and Mella—to get him through his darkest days. Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House, with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal yet a new side of the man who has become England's most unlikely symbol of masculine virility.

How long is Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home?

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home by John Bayley is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home aloud.

What Reading Level is Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home?

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home 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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