A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah

240 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging dark sad medium-paced
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It is estimated that in the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now in his mid-twenties, tells how, at the age of twelve, he fl...

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Moods

dark 80%
emotional 73%
sad 71%
challenging 53%
informative 47%
tense 47%
reflective 34%
inspiring 28%
hopeful 15%
adventurous 11%

Pace

medium 60%
fast 26%
slow 12%

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