How long does it take to read All Souls?
Michael Patrick MacDonald
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald takes about 5 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 281 pages, about 77,275 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.
Subjects: Biography, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Irish Americans, Irish American families, Childhood and youth
