How long does it take to read The Ginger Man?
A Novel
The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy takes about 6 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours
A weekend read
First published 1955. 327 pages, about 89,925 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in Dublin, Ireland, in the post-war year of 1947, this novel tells the story of a group of college students at Trinity College. Written by Irish-American author J. P. Donleavy (whose own background may have formed the basis for the setting), the novel faced censorship and banning in both Ireland and the United States.
Subjects: Fiction, humorous, general, American students, Americans, College students, Fiction, Rogues and vagabonds
