How Long to Read We Won’t Make It Out Alive

How Long Does it Take to Read We Won’t Make It Out Alive?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 47 minutes to read We Won’t Make It Out Alive by Kate Walls

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

Description

The first full length study of Patrick McCabe’s work, We Won’t Make It Out Alive, examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters—the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor farmer who routinely exhumes his dead mother for a chat. Beneath the grotesque and often very funny narratives of Irish border town life lurks startlingly similar pasts for these characters, spanning all of McCabe’s catalogue. As children, they were subject to the cruelty of the orphanage/workhouse or deadbeat parents numbed by alcohol. Many were victims of sexual abuse by priests and witnesses to the senseless violence brought on by political divides. The outrageous personalities and later actions of these characters often overshadow these very real beginnings, and in this book, Kate Walls discusses the impact of these social problems and how McCabe’s unfortunate (and usually well-meaning) narrators are driven crazy as a result. We Won’t Make It Out Alive also discusses how these characters fare against the Troubles of the 1970s and, for the novels set in more contemporary times, the changing Ireland of the Celtic Tiger. Being on the fringes of society themselves, McCabe’s characters have a unique vantage point from which to comment on these defining moments of social upheaval.

How long is We Won’t Make It Out Alive?

We Won’t Make It Out Alive by Kate Walls is 105 pages long, and a total of 26,775 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 33% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read We Won’t Make It Out Alive Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 26 minutes to read We Won’t Make It Out Alive aloud.

What Reading Level is We Won’t Make It Out Alive?

We Won’t Make It Out Alive 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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