How long does it take to read Ducks, Newburyport?
Lucy Ellmann
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann takes about 18 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 42 minutes
A long haul
First published 2019. 1,020 pages, about 280,500 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts are as comfortably familiar as they are heartrendingly honest, Ducks, Newburyport is a fearless indictment of our contemporary moment."--
Subjects: Fiction, political, Housewives, Fiction, Women, Psychology, Anxiety
