It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed by Lee Smith
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"That whole summer is as clear and as still in my head as the corsage under the glass bell in Mrs. Tate's parlor. Even now, summers and summers since, I can remember everything. I remember the day summer started." So begins Lee Smith's disarming first novel, written while she was an undergraduate at Hollins College and a winner in 1968 of the Book-of-the-Month Club Writing Fellowship Contest. The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, set in a small southern town at midcentury, tells the story of nine-year-old Susan, for whom the first bright, carefree, promise-filled days of summer slowly evolve...
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed by Lee Smith is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed aloud.
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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