How long does it take to read Manual for Living?
Sharon Dolin
Manual for Living by Sharon Dolin takes about 1 hour 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2016. 88 pages, about 24,200 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flashes of joy and despair, and all conditions in between. As in all of her work, Dolin's lyric voice attends to language and the world equally. Her verbal sleights-of-hand offer readers insights for ways to live. Manual for Living is a wise book: drink deeply from it.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry
