Night Journey (Fiction / Poetry)
Our rough guess is there are 62,250 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 4 hours and 9 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 9 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
62,250 words, Guess
Page Count
249 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL47858744M
- ISBN-139781780490861
- ISBN-101780490860
- OCLC Control Number811602098
- OCLC Control Numbernightjourney0000mack
Classifications
- LCCUB342.S6M34 2013
Description
Set in South Africa during the 60's and 70's, Night Journey is a novel about a young soldier who deserts the army and, when he is recaptured by the military, refuses to return to military service on religious grounds. For his insubordination he is placed in an extreme regime of solitary confinement for a long period, wherein he experiences the eponymous "night journey" of dreams, visions and memories, which lead him to find himself. The story of the young soldier's life emerges, as a stream of consciousness, in the present tense, and gradually the narrator's back-story and his psychological state are filled-in through a mixture of dreams, recollections, and flashbacks, intercut with scenes from the ongoing present. It is an erratic and chaotic life with a hopeless father and the wild and wayward mother who often live on the shady side of the law; all this is set against a brooding and violent background of South Africa at war with its neighbours and itself.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!