How Long to Read Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery

How Long Does it Take to Read Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery by Doug Anderson

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

Description

An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic sixties, and their long aftermath. “We tend to write about what will not go away,” Doug Anderson says in this candid, darkly humorous journey of self-discovery. Beginning in 1943, in the pre–civil rights South filled with tobacco and war stories, he recalls the difficult childhood that propels him into service in Vietnam. In 1967, having returned home deeply shaken by his experience as a combat medical corpsman, Anderson plunges into the heady freedoms and excesses of the sixties. His...

How long is Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery?

Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery by Doug Anderson is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery aloud.

What Reading Level is Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery?

Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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