It takes the average reader 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Ricochet Blues by Don Smith
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
With the Dust Bowl years steeped in recent memory, a blues loving black boy named Garth Washington comes of age in the sharecropper's community of Ricochet Louisiana with his guitar and harmonica playing best friend Ben Henry Johansson. The year his father dies Garth becomes intimately involved with Olivia Sumner the white daughter of an English bred plantation owner, but over the course of a short autumn season Olivia loses interest in the boy she first seduced on Crocket's Creek. The following year Garth's mother sells the family's small sharecrop-farm and he and Ben Henry move to Baton...
Ricochet Blues by Don Smith is 524 pages long, and a total of 133,096 words.
This makes it 177% the length of the average book. It also has 163% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 7 minutes to read Ricochet Blues aloud.
Ricochet Blues is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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