How long does it take to read Ellis Island?
Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Monica de la Torre
Ellis Island by Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Monica de la Torre takes about 2 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 15 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1980. 123 pages, about 33,825 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The French novelist Georges Perec, whose Life: A User's Manual has been called a landmark of contemporary literature, has continually captured the American imagination, most recently with the publication of A Void, a novel written without the letter e. Ellis Island holds us in thrall once again. With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island. In lyrical prose, they explore their personal relationships to the themes of diaspora and identity, then interview men and women who, as children, arrived at Ellis Island full of hope and dreams about their new lives in America. Ellis Island offers a whole new presentation of the immigrant experience.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, History, Biography, Immigrants, Immigrants, united states, Fairy tales
