How Long to Read The Shipping News

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shipping News?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

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

Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate...

How long is The Shipping News?

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shipping News Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The Shipping News aloud.

What Reading Level is The Shipping News?

The Shipping News 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy The Shipping News?

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