How Long to Read A Visit from Father

How Long Does it Take to Read A Visit from Father?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read A Visit from Father by Donald Emmet Worcester

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

Description

“Arizona was, I knew, a land of cowboys and Indians, and both ranked high in my esteem. It was also where our father lived, and even though our mother had divorced him after he wandered off and didn’t return, we knew he was somewhere in Arizona and always hoped he’d come and take us there.” So writes Don Worcester, and for everyone else who ever dreamed of riding off to the West his tales will hold the poignancy and truth of that dream. Worcester, his brother and sister lived most of their childhoods with their grandparents on “the homestead” in the Southern California desert, scraping by during the Great Depression. Some seasons they joined their mother, who was creating an academic career as an astronomer. Those times with her—in Berkeley, Winter Park, Florida, or Poughkeepsie—were welcome respites in the hard routine of life. Most days, though, were spent on the homestead doing chores or at school. But there were horses. Some wild, some tame. All teasing with a freedom and a power that kept hope alive. There were friends, like A.P. Aldrich, the surrogate father who told the boys they could amount to something. There were escapades with brother Harris. And there was the day their father showed up at school—driving a powerful, shiny late-model car—for a half-hour visit. With understated narrative and vivid detail, Worcester spins tales of childhood and growing up between the two World Wars, of the West lived as both fact and myth, of family and loneliness. It is sprightly telling of a most human story, a nostalgic memoir of an unusual rite of passage, evoking times and places that today have reality only in the mythos of the American Dream.

How long is A Visit from Father?

A Visit from Father by Donald Emmet Worcester is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Visit from Father Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read A Visit from Father aloud.

What Reading Level is A Visit from Father?

A Visit from Father is suitable for students ages 10 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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