How Long to Read Byssus

By Jen Hadfield

How Long Does it Take to Read Byssus?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Byssus by Jen Hadfield

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

Description

Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced 'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to mortality, to love and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been widely admired for its startling originality. Here, through poems of astonishment and adoration, through charms and fables, and ultimately through a practice of attention and careful honouring - she shows how speech itself can be an act of home-making. Byssus is a profound consideration of just what it means to get to know a place.

How long is Byssus?

Byssus by Jen Hadfield is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Byssus Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Byssus aloud.

What Reading Level is Byssus?

Byssus 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.

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