How long does it take to read Rabbit at Rest?
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Rabbit Angstrom series
Previous: Rabbit Is Rich Next: Rabbit Remembered
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1990. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left ...
Subjects: Fiction, Middle class men, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Middle-aged men, Fiction, psychological
