It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read About a Dream by Robert Briner
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What if you had the power to do anything; the power to return life to the dead, make time slow or stop altogether? Imagine having unlimited strength, boundless knowledge encompassing even the future, and wisdom beyond possibility, but with all of this power there is a rule. One simple rule that binds you like the iron shackles that bind a prisoner to his ball and chain; you cannot change what is supposed to happen. You cannot change that the woman you love more than life itself must die. The year is 1945, and ten-year-old Benjamin Smalls is found alone outside the one and only grocery store in the small southern town of Hanley; the kind of place where nothing greatly memorable happens. Until his mysterious disappearance exactly fifteen years later, events transpire that no one will ever forget. As Ben falls in love with Hannah, the most beautiful girl in Hanley, their trials and losses, along with their adulterous affair, are remembered through a tale that in Hanley is told on front porches for generations. More than twenty years after Ben vanishes, another young boy, Jonathan Wendell, hears Ben's story for the first time from the town's resident storyteller and somehow feels a connection to it that he cannot explain. The more Jonathan learns of Ben the more he discovers of the ties that bind them both even though they are decades apart.
About a Dream by Robert Briner is 546 pages long, and a total of 139,776 words.
This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 43 minutes to read About a Dream aloud.
About a Dream is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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