It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read Excerpts from a Family Medical Dict by Rebecca Brown
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In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became III with cancer. In Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In seventeen short chapters, from 'anaemia', 'twilight sleep' and 'metastasis', to 'unction', 'cremation' and 'remains', the author describes the family's journey through her mother's illness and death. Written unsentimentally, and with sometimes painful honesty, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an extraordinarily moving commemoration of a life and...
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dict by Rebecca Brown is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read Excerpts from a Family Medical Dict aloud.
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dict is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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