It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Shriek of Silence by David Patterson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter." So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense...
The Shriek of Silence by David Patterson is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Shriek of Silence aloud.
The Shriek of Silence is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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