It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read When Breath Becomes Air by Abraham Verghese
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most...
When Breath Becomes Air by Abraham Verghese 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.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read When Breath Becomes Air aloud.
When Breath Becomes Air is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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