How long does it take to read The Counterlife?
The Counterlife by Philip Roth takes about 6 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1986. 328 pages, about 90,200 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stories of people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, ranging from a quiet suburban New Jersey dentist to a genteel Englishwoman and an Israeli settlement leader.
Subjects: Fiction, Nathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character), Self-actualization (Psychology), Novelists, Authors, fiction, Fiction, general
