How long does it take to read Closer?
Closer by Dennis Cooper takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1989. 144 pages, about 39,600 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends' passions, and, one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the mindlessness of middle America.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations, Sexuality, Gay men, Fiction, Fiction, gay, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay
