Year of the Monkey

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
2 hrs 22 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Year of the Monkey?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Year of the Monkey is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Year of the Monkey

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 6
SMOG Index Grade 9
Coleman Liau Index Grade 7
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 8

Reading Time

2 hrs 22 mins

How long to read Year of the Monkey?

The estimated word count of Year of the Monkey is 35,495 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 2 hrs 22 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 57 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 19 mins.

Year of the Monkey - 35,495 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 3 hrs 57 mins
Average 250 words/min 2 hrs 22 mins
Fast 450 words/min 1 hrs 19 mins
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Authors
Patti Smith

More about Year of the Monkey

35,495 words

Word Count

for Year of the Monkey

3 hours and 49 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.