How long does it take to read Grief?
Grief by Andrew Holleran takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 45 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2006. 150 pages, about 41,250 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 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, a worn, jaded professor comes to our nation's capital to recuperate from his loss. What he finds there -- in his repressed, lonely landlord, in the city's mood and architecture, and in the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln -- shows him new, poignant truths about America, yearning, loneliness, and mourning itself. Since Andrew Holleran first burst onto the scene with 1978's groundbreaking Dancer from the Dance, which has been continuously in print, he has been dazzling readers and critics with his haunting, brilliant prose. The Publishing Triangle ranks Dancer from the Dance at #15 on its list of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels ever, along with titles by Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. A new Andrew Holleran book is a major literary event; with Grief, Holleran is poised to reach a wider audience than ever before.
Subjects: Widowers, Death, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Parents, College teachers
