How long does it take to read The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace?
A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America. (Bestseller)
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae, African American college graduates, Yale University, Working class African Americans, Drug dealers, Friends and associates
