It takes the average reader 2 hours and 48 minutes to read The Double Legacy by Rachel Hadas
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the late spring of 1992, poet Rachel Hadas's mother died of cancer. Six weeks later, a close friend died of AIDS. The Double Legacy is a moving sequence of essays on the aftermath of these deaths in Hadas's life. A busy teacher and writer, wife and mother, daughter and friend, Hadas found her life dominated first by the two terminal illnesses of those beloved people and then by their two deaths - deaths startlingly close together in time and space. These experiences, which infused her thoughts and dreams, quickly became and for some time remained central to her writing. Interweaving her...
The Double Legacy by Rachel Hadas is 165 pages long, and a total of 42,075 words.
This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 49 minutes to read The Double Legacy aloud.
The Double Legacy is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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