How long does it take to read The Wedding?
The Wedding by Dorothy West takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The publication of The Wedding by Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but a commercial success as well. Readers across America responded to West's delicat weaving of North and South, black and white, past and present in this "fascinating and engrossing tale" (People) of race and class set in Martha's Vineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years, West offers a window into the rise of the black middle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, The Wedding is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Afro-Americans, Fiction, African Americans
