How long does it take to read Rabbit Is Rich?
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike takes about 8 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Rabbit Angstrom series
Previous: Rabbit Redux Next: Rabbit at Rest
About 8 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 467 pages, about 128,425 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?
Subjects: Fiction, Middle class men, Middle class men in fiction, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Fiction.xpo, National Book Award Winner
