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Alice Munro

Open Secrets by Alice Munro takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1994. 304 pages, about 83,600 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 17 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 29 minutes

The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. Carried away -- A real life -- The Albanian virgin -- Open secrets -- The Jack Randa hotel -- A wilderness station -- Spaceships have landed -- Vandals

Subjects: Women, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), Canada, fiction, Mujeres

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