It takes the average reader 11 hours and 20 minutes to read The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy. Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with...
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver is 680 pages long, and a total of 170,000 words.
This makes it 229% the length of the average book. It also has 208% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 28 minutes to read The Lacuna aloud.
The Lacuna is suitable for students ages 12 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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