It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair MacLeod
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The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change. His second collection, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories confirms MacLeod’s international reputation as a...
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair MacLeod is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories aloud.
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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