How long does it take to read The Lives They Left Behind?
Darby Penney, Peter Stastny
The Lives They Left Behind by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny takes about 3 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 207 pages, about 56,925 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider web -- 7. How people were treated at Willard -- 8. A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- 9. A frequent visitor to the White House -- 10. My blood temper ... resigned -- 11. An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom -- Epilogue: Is it better today?.
Subjects: Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.), Psychiatric hospital patients, Psychiatric Hospitals, Patients, Mental Disorders, Biography
