How long does it take to read Desperate Characters?
a novel
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 171 pages, about 47,025 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".
Subjects: Fiction, Married women, City and town life, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Psychological fiction
