How Long to Read The Water Thieves

How Long Does it Take to Read The Water Thieves?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Water Thieves by Sam Mahon

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

Description

The Water Thieves is a passionate and engaging account of a year in the author's life. Galvanised into action by the realisation that the wetlands and streams all around him have begun to wither, Sam Mahon embarks on a year of involvement in local body politics. This memoir charts the frustrations, relationships, and confl icts, as well as the need for wild invention when he agrees to run for Council. Mahon's descriptions of the natural world rival those from our best poets. Yet when he describes the real nuts and bolts of politics: council meetings, memos, phone trees, protests, working with fellow environmentalists, he's also a comically disarming and often blistering, social satirist. His energy for sustaining a fi ght in the face of maddening obstruction is prodigious. Mahon's techniques for gaining councillor and media attention are hilarious, bloody-minded and bold: from pyrotechnics to mock funerals; from stabbingly witty speeches to asking those in power to put their politics where their immediate health is, demonstrates all the qualities of the fi rebrand. This memoir is poetry, expose, elegy, Shakespearean comedy, drama and protest song. Mahon weaves the world of the artist and the world of the environmental activist with skill and immediacy. His comments on human nature, including his own, makes for some hilarious, and sobering, moments. The Water Thieves is an astonishing and intensely interesting account concerning one of our most valuable natural resources. It is skilfully and passionately written with an individual and honest voice: a new voice in the literary non-fi ction genre of memoir.

How long is The Water Thieves?

The Water Thieves by Sam Mahon 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Water Thieves Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Water Thieves aloud.

What Reading Level is The Water Thieves?

The Water Thieves is suitable for students ages 10 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.

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