It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.
This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read Prodigal Summer aloud.
Prodigal Summer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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