How long does it take to read Visions of Gerard?
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac takes about 2 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 46 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 151 pages, about 41,525 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.
Subjects: Beat generation, Fiction, beat
