How Long to Read Where Beauty Survived

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Beauty Survived?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Where Beauty Survived by George Elliott Clarke

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

Description

A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black officer (non-commissioned) in the British army—George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother's relatives were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing—Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. With vulnerability and humour, George shows us how these dualities shaped him as a poet and thinker. At the book’s heart is George’s turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. Bill could be loving and patient, but he also acted out destructive frustrations, assaulting George’s mother and sometimes George and his brothers, too. Where Beauty Survived is the story of a complicated family, of the emotional stress that white racism exerts on Black households, of the unique cultural geography of Africadia, of a child who became a poet, and of long-kept secrets.

How long is Where Beauty Survived?

Where Beauty Survived by George Elliott Clarke is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Beauty Survived Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Where Beauty Survived aloud.

What Reading Level is Where Beauty Survived?

Where Beauty Survived is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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