How long does it take to read The End of Alice?
The End of Alice by A. M. Homes takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 264 pages, about 72,600 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The End of Alice is a novel by American writer A. M. Homes. Its main narrator, known only as Chappy, is a man in his fifties who has spent twenty-three years in prison for abusing and killing a child. As a parole hearing nears, he recalls his own upbringing under an unstable, abusive mother. He also receives letters from an unnamed nineteen-year-old college student, who says she intends to win over a twelve-year-old boy from her neighborhood. Chappy responds with eager encouragement, and the two correspond.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Prisoners, Child molesters, Murderers, Fiction, Fiction, general
