It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
There are distant shouts, rifle shots, the pounding of feet across the bridge, the sound of running. A woman’s scream carves the night then bubbles away. In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife’s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after—for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925....
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow aloud.
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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