It takes the average reader 2 hours and 30 minutes to read Marine Life by Linda Svendsen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In these fluidly interwoven stories, Linda Svendsen charts—with tenderness and devastating accuracy—the longings, pleasures, and terrors of belonging to a family. Through the watchful and sometimes astonished eyes of Adele Nordstrom, we view the members of her chaotic, working-class home in Vancouver: her womanizing brother, Ray; her self-destructive sister, Joyce; and her mother, June, a cocktail pianist who believes that a bad marriage is better than no marriage at all. Svendsen’s book paints a tender, piercing portrait of a girl growing up—capturing with perfect clarity the intensity of love, hate, and pain in a contemporary family. A major motion picture based on Marine Life, directed by the award-winning Anne Wheeler and starring Cybill Shepherd, was released in 2000.
Marine Life by Linda Svendsen is 150 pages long, and a total of 37,500 words.
This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Marine Life aloud.
Marine Life is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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