Room with a Darker View
Claire Phillips
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Room with a Darker View
Published
2020
Publisher
DoppelHouse Press
Pages
250
ISBN-13
9781733957908
Description
"A Room with a Darker View is an unflinching, feminist work chronicling the author's troubled relationship with her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer, whose severe illness--marked by manic bouts of laughter, delusions, and florid hallucinations--went unrecognized for decades. This elegantly written memoir challenges conceptions about mental illness, difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease, and how we frame contributions by outliers to society. Fragmented vignettes tell the story of undiagnosed mental illness besieging a mother-daughter relationship, using flashbacks to tonally convey the extreme but unfortunately common aspects of schizophrenia. A Room with a Darker View is part illness narrative, part reflection on shame, ethnicity, and the generation gaps that have defined mother-daughter relationships amid the evolution of feminism in the twentieth century. Only with her mother's final relapse at age seventy-three did the author begin to tell this story, first in Black Clock magazine, an essay for which she received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015"--
Subjects
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Autobiography of a Yogi
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Les confessions
The Story of Philosophy
Lives
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages are in Room with a Darker View?
This edition of Room with a Darker View has approximately 250 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
How long does it take to read Room with a Darker View?
For most readers, Room with a Darker View typically takes between 5h 13m and 3h 28m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 62,500 words and common reading speeds.
Here's a detailed breakdown: • Continuous reading at 250 WPM: approximately 4h 10m of focused reading • Casual reading (30 minutes/day): you could finish in roughly 9 days • Estimated word count: 62,500 words
Your individual reading time will vary based on your personal reading pace, the amount of daily reading time, and your familiarity with the subject matter.
What is the word count of Room with a Darker View?
The estimated word count for Room with a Darker View is approximately 62,500 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
This is an approximation — actual word count may vary based on font size, formatting, edition, and the presence of illustrations or charts.
Who is the author of Room with a Darker View?
Room with a Darker View was written by Claire Phillips.
When was Room with a Darker View published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2020. The original work may have been published on a different date.