How long does it take to read Fall On Your Knees:A Novel?
Fall On Your Knees:A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald takes about 10 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 566 pages, about 155,650 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.
Subjects: Sisters, Families, Fiction, Family, Fiction, sagas, Nova scotia, fiction
