The estimated word count of The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story is 107,260 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 10 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 56 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 59 mins.
The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story - 107,260 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 11 hrs 56 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 7 hrs 10 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 59 mins |
for The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story
“A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.”—Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nickel Boys From the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life, a new novel about Lucille Ball, a thrilling love story starring Hollywood’s first true media mogul.This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss’s follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.