How Long to Read Land of the Green Gold

How Long Does it Take to Read Land of the Green Gold?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 40 minutes to read Land of the Green Gold by Emmett Shields

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

Description

LAND OF THE GREEN GOLD will be read on many levels. Off the top, it will be read for pleasure and for its sexual content. On a deeper level, it will be read as a fictionalized history of Fallbrook, California, a small town that likes to call itself the Avocado Capitol of the World. Civic hype aside, Fallbrook is a neo-feudalistic society of disparate wealth and poverty. Grove owners, better known as avocado ranchers, are dedicated to the preservation of their womb-of-plenty, smug with their labor force of latino illegals, better known as Wetbacks, who comprise the underbelly of poverty. Fallbrook lies in an enchanted setting of mountains and valleys approximately ten miles inland from the Pacific. In the beginning, there were olive groves that were replaced by citrus and avocados. The town existed in a state of complacency until the Marines came to the Rancho Margarita, the Spanish Land Grant, which was renamed as Camp Pendleton just prior to World War II. Several generations of bitter wrangling ensued, until Marines sufficient in number settled down to stay and by their numbers turned Fallbrook into a Jarhead (enlisted Marine) town. On a more profound level, LAND OF THE GREEN GOLD is a story of love: the need for it, the search, the finding, the struggle to keep and the compromises made; the degradation and prostitution of self for this most precious and elusive commodity. On a warm afternoon in November, I stood outside the Happy Jug Liquor Store and observed the trabajadores as they came to town for their weekly visit to the post office where their pay-day dollars would be exchanged for dinero seguros (money orders) which would be sent to las familias en Mejico. They walked on both sides of Mission Street, in a single file, and it seems that I can still smell the sweat from their labors in the avocado groves. At that time, I saw the scene as a modern-day version of William Faulkner's mythical Mississippi County relocated in Fallbrook, California where blacks had been replaced by latinos and where cotton had been rejected in favor of citrus and avocados. Mine was a transcendental occurrence, an out-of-body moment in which I knew that I was driven to write about the town and its people. Many years have passed since I came to realize the source of my inspiration, which occurred on Faulkner's one-hundredth birthday. Emmett Shields

How long is Land of the Green Gold?

Land of the Green Gold by Emmett Shields is 700 pages long, and a total of 175,000 words.

This makes it 236% the length of the average book. It also has 214% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Land of the Green Gold Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 56 minutes to read Land of the Green Gold aloud.

What Reading Level is Land of the Green Gold?

Land of the Green Gold 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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