How Long to Read Swimming in a Sea of Death

How Long Does it Take to Read Swimming in a Sea of Death?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

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

Description

Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it means to confront death in our culture. David Rieff confronts his feelings in relation to his motherandmdash;the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to...

How long is Swimming in a Sea of Death?

Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff is 180 pages long, and a total of 45,000 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Swimming in a Sea of Death Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Swimming in a Sea of Death aloud.

What Reading Level is Swimming in a Sea of Death?

Swimming in a Sea of Death 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.

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