It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland' s far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic' s Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivy' s life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for...
Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.
This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Plains of Promise aloud.
Plains of Promise is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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