It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The human face is many things. It is a photograph, an identity, a disguise. It is pain’s currency. It is proof of life and death. In his latest collection, On Shaving Off His Face, poet-physician Shane Neilson presents an album of faces, word portraits of maladies both physical and mental. Illness is acknowledged in the epileptic convulsions of a beloved son—and in the narrator’s pain-stricken reflection in a mirror. Psychiatry, medicine and religion are questioned, doubted, and finally accepted in terms of resistance. Famous clinicians speak alongside school shooters, depressed musicians,...
On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.
This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read On Shaving Off His Face aloud.
On Shaving Off His Face is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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