It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A memoir of a remote Spanish fishing village just after WWII, a community on the brink of change, by “the finest travel writer of the last century” (The New Yorker). Seeking solace in the everyday after his World War II army service, travel writer Norman Lewis returns to his beloved Spain, to the fishing village of Farol, in the hopes of recapturing a lost sense of home. It is a place he knows better than his native England, and he finds the Spanish countryside “still as nostalgically backward-looking as ever, still magnificent, still invested with all its ancient virtues and ancient...
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis is 231 pages long, and a total of 57,981 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Voices of the Old Sea aloud.
Voices of the Old Sea is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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