It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman who journeys through America in search of silence and solitude. But what is found in these stories, and discovered by these characters, is the astonishing poetry and peace found in the mundane: a memory, a scent on the wind, the grace in the curve of a street. Fishing the Sloe-Black River is a...
Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Fishing the Sloe-Black River aloud.
Fishing the Sloe-Black River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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