How Long to Read Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 50 minutes to read Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories by Tim Wenzell

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

Description

Tim Wenzell's Velvet Shipwrecks is a collection of short stories characterized by the unexpected detour, the stops along a narrative way that take the reader into a marginal America, where surprises happen and are cast in a dark humor that paradoxically lights our way. Consider "Check Point," where the entire Wolrath family is arrested for drunkenness--including a sixteen-year-old son "was fed sips of wine in the middle of the fair grounds for five hours by his mother" and "Annie, barely ten," who kicked the officer's shins as the father, sober, attempted to pass his sobriety test. Consider,...

How long is Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories?

Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories by Tim Wenzell is 170 pages long, and a total of 42,500 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories?

Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories 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.

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