How long does it take to read The Cancer Journals?
Audre Lorde, Caterina Riba Sanmartí
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, Caterina Riba Sanmartí takes about 1 hour 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 25 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1980. 77 pages, about 21,175 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde’s experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women’s pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women’s body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde’s testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action.
Subjects: Cancer, Diaries, Poets, American, American Poets, Patients, Breast
