It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been...
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read A Sorrow Beyond Dreams aloud.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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