How Long to Read Climb to the Sky

How Long Does it Take to Read Climb to the Sky?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 32 minutes to read Climb to the Sky by Suzanne Dracius

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

Description

Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author's native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often violent history. The multi-generational novella "Her Destiny on Climb to the Sky Street" opens with the gripping account of a runaway slave's survival of disease and abuse aboard a slave ship and concludes with his descendant, a young woman living in a post-abolition world whose life of abuse and torture by her employers nonetheless resembles that of a slave. In "Sweat, Sugar, and Blood," a woman held captive by her husband in their home must choose between safe ignorance and dangerous knowledge. Other stories, such as "Chlorophyllian Creation" and "Written in Lime Juice," convey the intimacy and directness of autobiographical essays. Each of Dracius's heroines achieves a transcendental experience through her own imagination and will, whether she is escaping natural catastrophe (such as the eruption of Mount Pelée), enduring jail time under interrogation by the national police, or coping with the ennui of life in a bourgeois home. Although the results of these historical, natural, or existential circumstances are unpredictable, what unites these women is deliverance. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French

How long is Climb to the Sky?

Climb to the Sky by Suzanne Dracius is 331 pages long, and a total of 83,081 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Climb to the Sky Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 33 minutes to read Climb to the Sky aloud.

What Reading Level is Climb to the Sky?

Climb to the Sky 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.

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