How Long to Read Young Men and Fire

How Long Does it Take to Read Young Men and Fire?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 10 minutes to read Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean

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

Description

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs...

How long is Young Men and Fire?

Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean is 370 pages long, and a total of 92,500 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Young Men and Fire Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read Young Men and Fire aloud.

What Reading Level is Young Men and Fire?

Young Men and Fire is suitable for students ages 12 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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