How long does it take to read Shopping and Fucking?
Mark Ravenhill
Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill takes about 1 hour 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 46 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 96 pages, about 26,400 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Part of the "in-yer-face" movement in 1990s British theatre that dealt frankly with issues of sex and violence as well as pointedly challenging societal values, this play follows five characters conducting hedonistic, self-destructive lives in a grim microcosm of drugs, shoplifting, prostitution, and sexual adventure, reflecting a society corrupted by consumerism and in a state of moral decline.
Subjects: Drama, Social conditions, Moral conditions, Consumption (Economics), Conduct of life, Social values
