It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Songs from the Black Chair by Charles Barber
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber?s desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light of his office, Barber observes that this isn?t really where he is supposed to be and reveals his privileged youth in contrast to his own nightmare of mental illness. By relating these troubled lives to his own, Barber illuminates some of the most disturbing and enduring...
Songs from the Black Chair by Charles Barber is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.
This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Songs from the Black Chair aloud.
Songs from the Black Chair is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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