How Long to Read Things Come On

How Long Does it Take to Read Things Come On?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Things Come On by Joseph Harrington

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

Description

Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet’s mother’s illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies—showing how the language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another. The resulting “amneoir” (a blend of “memoir” and “amnesia”) explores a time for which the author must rely largely on testimony and documentary evidence—not unlike the Congress and the nation did during the same period. Absences, amnesia, and silences count for at least as much as words. As the double tragedy unfolds, it refuses to become part of an overarching system, metaphor, or metanarrative, but rather raises questions of memory and evidence, gender and genre, personal and political, and expert vs. lay language. This haunting experimental biography challenges our assumptions about the distance between individual experience and history. A reader’s companion is available at http://thingscomeonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/

How long is Things Come On?

Things Come On by Joseph Harrington is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Things Come On Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Things Come On aloud.

What Reading Level is Things Come On?

Things Come On 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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