How long does it take to read Heat Wave?
a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago
Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg takes about 6 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 329 pages, about 90,475 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been.
Subjects: Disasters, Older people, services for, Older people, social conditions, Meteorology, Chicago (ill.), social conditions, Older people
