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How long does it take to read The Summons?

John Grisham

The Summons by John Grisham takes about 6 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 56 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2002. 378 pages, about 103,950 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 33 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 20 minutes

The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

John Grisham's bestselling backlist repackaged with fantastic new coversRay Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south. But the meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

Subjects: Mississippi in fiction, Mystery, Cuentos jurídicos, Trials (Murder)--Mississippi-Fiction, Murder-Mississippi-Fiction, Fiction

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