It takes the average reader 5 hours and 29 minutes to read The Convict and the Colonel by Richard Price
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A "mad" artist who lives in a cave. A satirical wooden bust of a white colonel. The artist's banishment to the Devil's Island penal colony for "impertinence." And a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization. In a stunning combination of scholarship and storytelling, the award-winning anthropologist Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, cinema and street theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation's powerful historical metaphors could so...
The Convict and the Colonel by Richard Price is 324 pages long, and a total of 82,296 words.
This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 29 minutes to read The Convict and the Colonel aloud.
The Convict and the Colonel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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