How Long to Read Searching for Home

How Long Does it Take to Read Searching for Home?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Searching for Home by Robert Pack

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

Description

Searching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three figures, each a seeker after some physical or conceptual home where uncertainties are overcome. · Charles Darwin circumnavigates the world and gleans the evidence for his theory of evolution but seems to sanction a godless world of randomness and struggle. · Escaping Nazis, Albert Einstein immigrates to America, where he fights for peace while unsuccessfully trying to prove his unified field theory. · Pogroms force the poet’s scholarly Uncle Phil from Russia to America, where he lives in reduced circumstances and longs to relocate to Israel. Searching for meaning informs other deeply felt poems, likewise rendered in supple metrical language, as do themes of empathy, peace, humor, and the beauty of nature—pushbacks against disappointment, mortality, and the human propensity for cruelty and violence. It is a landscape dotted with remembered moments of joy and wonder: otters slide down a muddy slope, kids put on a hilarious version of The Odyssey, a dog teases a little boy. . . . Searching for Home is both a vision of Pack’s own odyssey and his final testament to what matters.

How long is Searching for Home?

Searching for Home by Robert Pack is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Searching for Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Searching for Home aloud.

What Reading Level is Searching for Home?

Searching for Home 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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