How Long to Read A Distant Shore

How Long Does it Take to Read A Distant Shore?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible. With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one....

How long is A Distant Shore?

A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Distant Shore Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read A Distant Shore aloud.

What Reading Level is A Distant Shore?

A Distant Shore is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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