How long does it take to read Tell-All?
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 179 pages, about 49,225 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter–ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s bold-faced—it’s vintage Chuck.
Subjects: Fiction, Romans à clef, Fiction, general, Hollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction, Motion picture actors and actresses, Murder
