How Long to Read Act of Atonement

How Long Does it Take to Read Act of Atonement?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Act of Atonement by Ray Burston

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

Description

One stormy night in November 1954 witnesses Marcel Bozin, a low-born orphan from a rough, working class district of Paris, arriving at the grand old chateau of a long-lost comrade and professional soldier, Jean-Michel de Laziere de Rochefoulon. He is there hoping to rekindle a bizarre, symbiotic friendship that once blossomed when he helped this dashing, aristocratic officer escape a massacre of French prisoners-of-war at the hands of the Nazis. Played out against the backdrop of France's brutal struggle in Algeria, as the story of that friendship unfolds Rochefoulon's passionate, yet unrequited wife meanwhile offers the observation that "in the end all of life comes down to that inner struggle to be doing the right thing - and hopefully for the right reasons". Hence, we encounter our two friends (and indeed France herself) wrestling with the conundrum of how to win a war against a ruthless and determined enemy whilst all the time operating within constraints of justice and a respect for human dignity borne of their own all-too-recent experience of occupation and tyranny. Furthermore, Elizabeth's words are given added poignancy by virtue of the conflict raging within Bozin between remaining true to his friend or yielding to forbidden desire towards for his friend's beautiful and alluring wife; of the contradiction inherent in vocally condemning an 'immoral' war whilst simultaneously engaging in an act of personal immorality that, however masterfully it may seek to justify itself, ultimately cannot defy the laws of cause and effect. So, in life, love and war, do the ends ever justify the means? If so, as human beings what price must we therefore pay for wilfully pursuing the expedient? By the time Bozin is finally compelled to undertake his perilous 'act of atonement', the answer - for these three tormented individuals, as well as for their country - is a very high price indeed.

How long is Act of Atonement?

Act of Atonement by Ray Burston is 238 pages long, and a total of 61,404 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Act of Atonement Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Act of Atonement aloud.

What Reading Level is Act of Atonement?

Act of Atonement is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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