How Long to Read Touchstones
By James McNeish
How Long Does it Take to Read Touchstones?
It takes the average reader 4 hours and 17 minutes to read Touchstones by James McNeish
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
A memoir that is at once a self-portrait, a hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and a record of a varied cast of influential people. A young man leaves home a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, to travel the world. He returns to New Zealand changed almost beyond recognition. Along the way he meets nine people who influence his life and help make him the writer he becomes. James McNeish's Touchstones has a cast of characters who include 'the Mother Courage of the English theatre', an anti-Mafia reformer in Sicily, a Kanak revolutionary who is assassinated, a rejected cousin and 'Mr Punch in naval uniform', the New Zealand poet Denis Glover. All are larger than life. Some of them, like the author's mysterious Maori aunt, are good enough to bottle. The book is witty, poignant and in the words of its editor, Emma Neale, 'rich in astonishing anecdote'.
How long is Touchstones?
Touchstones by James McNeish is 249 pages long, and a total of 64,491 words.
This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read Touchstones Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Touchstones aloud.
What Reading Level is Touchstones?
Touchstones 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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