It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read Willie Hogg by Robin Jenkins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Robin Jenkins' novel tells a contemporary but universal story which resounds with a sense of hope. An elderly man, Willie, and his wife, Maggie, travel to a Navajo reservation in the Arizona desert where Maggie's missionary sister, Elspeth, lies dying of cancer. An article on the couple in a Glasgow newspaper a few weeks previously had sparked off a great effort in the city to raise funds for the trip and Willie and his wife soon find themselves the target of unseemly publicity and envied by their neighbours. On their arrival in America, Willie finds his lifelong beliefs tested under the huge, empty sky of Arizona, and Maggie, it seems, has undergone a real transformation...
Willie Hogg by Robin Jenkins is 167 pages long, and a total of 42,919 words.
This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read Willie Hogg aloud.
Willie Hogg is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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