How long does it take to read Hard Laughter?
a novel
Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott takes about 5 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 290 pages, about 79,750 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jennifer is twenty three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by the course of Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self contained Ben and Feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and dead on accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer in the intimacy Jen prizes among the other estimable things: good music, good hard laughter, good sex, good industry, and good books."
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Families, Fiction, Fiction, general, Cancer, Patients
