It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Love's Last Messenger and Other Stories by Earl Mckenzie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this, his fifth collection of short stories, Earl McKenzie explores themes such as filial and romantic love, thanksgiving, education, community and the relation between the visual arts and society. We meet four members of a family who give their own perspectives on an estranged son; a man who mourns the death of the first woman he loved; a poet who seeks the forgiveness of a woman he once hurt; a yam farmer who cannot forget a kindness; and a young Rastafarian artist who mounts an exhibition of his paintings in the square of his home district. A variety of storytelling techniques are used to offer these vivid interpretations of Jamaican life.
Love's Last Messenger and Other Stories by Earl Mckenzie is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read Love's Last Messenger and Other Stories aloud.
Love's Last Messenger and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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