How Long to Read My Father's War

How Long Does it Take to Read My Father's War?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 12 minutes to read My Father's War by Paul West

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

Description

The appearance of Paul West's memoir of his mother, My Mother's Music, led a legion of readers to anticipate a companion volume about his father. Paul West now obliges not only with an enthraling remembrance of the blinded, shell-shocked survivor of three years of trench warfare during "The War to End All Wars"-but also with an exploration of the legacy the warrior-father imparts to his willing yet unsuspecting son. The time recounted is 1939 to 1945, when ten-year-old Paul grows into prime adolescence. Together, father and son play war games, guarding the English coast from foxholes under the kitchen table, or watching on moonlit nights as real Nazi bombers pass overhead. All the while, Alfred Massick West instructs young Paul in his agonies and glories of twenty years before. The two have much in common, though distantly, and Paul slowly learns to understand and even second-guess his father, although the compulsions that grip the war veteran largely remain a mystery separating their generations-a conundrum of what the son wishes his still-damaged father could be, bound up with expectations no father can ever quite live up to. In this memoir Paul West retraces the lineaments of his youth, and leads us in twenty-five chiseled chapters on an odyssey of two lives which calculates the distance between those who survive war's devastation, and those who must bear its consequence. Book jacket.

How long is My Father's War?

My Father's War by Paul West is 187 pages long, and a total of 48,059 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read My Father's War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 22 minutes to read My Father's War aloud.

What Reading Level is My Father's War?

My Father's War is suitable for students ages 10 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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