How long does it take to read Surviving James Dean?
William Bast
Surviving James Dean by William Bast takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In 1956, at the age of twenty-five, one year after his friend's untimely death and while memories were still fresh, [William] Bast wrote 'James Dean: A Biography, ' a short, now seminal, account of their five year relationship. In 'Surviving James Dean, ' Bast boldly addresses the task he began but was unable to do justice to at the time, owing to legal constraints imposed by his publishers, by Dean's studio Warner Brothers, and out of respect for the actor's own family"--Inside cover jacket.
Subjects: Gay actors, Biography, Television writers, Motion picture actors and actresses
