How Long to Read The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse by Sandra Wassilie

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

Description

CIRQUE PRESS proudly announces The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse by Sandra Wassilie. The Dream That Is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse introduces a young girl growing into awareness of an uncertain world through an apprenticeship with the wilderness of territorial Alaska. Set during the years of the Cold War, it recalls a particular place, dominated by a lake, on the north side of the Alaska Range. It is a glimpse into the middle of the twentieth century from a child whose scant knowledge of the outside world comes mainly from overhearing the talk of adults and from books. Her daily life involves dog teams, boats, and planes. The outside world is different. Wassilie writes in a narrative style that leaps into the lyrical and into depths of mystery whether of waterweeds or parental behavior or her own changing body. Her childhood is a negotiation between loneness and a growing family in a hybrid community of woodsmen and government workers, between being lost in books and immersed in the forest, if not the changing moods of the sky and lake. She confronts the harsh beauty of her life equally with sorrow and humor. She comes to accept it as a series of arrivals and departures with hard choices to be made along the way. And in that acceptance, she finds she can forgive. About Cirque Press: Cirque Press grew out of Cirque, a literary journal established in 2009 by Michael Burwell. Sandra Kleven came onboard in 2011 to further the work. Cirque was established to provide publication opportunity to writers and artists of a region that falls north from Oregon to the Yukon Territory and south from there through Alaska to Hawaii. As of 2020, we celebrate twenty issues of our highly regarded journal. Cirque contributors are widely published in an array of journals. Their writing is significant. It is personal. It is strong. It draws on these regions in ways that add to the culture of place. The body of work of individual writers could be lost if it remained scattered across the landscape of literary journals. Cirque Press (2018) seeks to gather the work of our contributors into book-form where it can be experienced coherently as statement, observation, and artistry: where it can be preserved as literary history of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Sandra Kleven - Michael Burwell, publishers and editors

How long is The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse?

The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse by Sandra Wassilie 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse aloud.

What Reading Level is The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse?

The Dream That is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse 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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