How Long to Read Scattershot

How Long Does it Take to Read Scattershot?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read Scattershot by Amy Eggert

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This bomb-ass, brilliant book is, without question,as serious as a heart attack. The storyworld of REAL survival: Amy Eggert is the only person I know brave enough, badd enuff, to go there. Aiming to challenge--and more than likely, shatter--widespread myth and that which has been cataclysmic in our society like no other fiction I've read, Scattershotis the true language of trauma. It never stops talking to you, getting into your head in ways that you'll neverforget. Far-reaching, Scattershot will utterly blow you away. It's that good.Written with a compressed precision, the short storiesand prose poems that make up Scattershot are like the random yet deadly pattern produced by ahaphazardly fired shotgun: painful, contingent,indelible. Equally poised between quiet empathy and unflinching candor, these are snapshots ofeveryday life in a neoliberal America that hasgiven up on its social contract and the promise of thebetter life. What remains is a haunted landscape of broken dreams, broken bodies, and broken minds. Amy Eggert is a poet of our diminished world, and Scattershot is necessary reading.Amy Eggert's Scattershot must be what Cathy Caruth meant by "the story of a wound that cries out." Only here are many wounds growing mouths, yearning to be heard--the grandfather in the assistedliving facility crying "this isn't home," the four year old son flashing back to his father's hallway suicide, a woman who pines for ghost babies lost in trees. These stories, in their unflinching exquisiteness, are a live nerve twitching, the body at its limits demanding witness. Eggert's debut collection is the body almost choking on its own vulnerable song­.

How long is Scattershot?

Scattershot by Amy Eggert is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Scattershot Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read Scattershot aloud.

What Reading Level is Scattershot?

Scattershot is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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