It takes the average reader 2 hours and 38 minutes to read You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) by Eleni Sikelianos
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an American immigrant woman's experience and becomes an argument that no existence is ever truly marginal. Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead, as well as a hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon. Sikelianos directs the creative writing program at the University of Denver.
You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) by Eleni Sikelianos is 155 pages long, and a total of 39,525 words.
This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 35 minutes to read You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) aloud.
You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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