How long does it take to read What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Peter Hedges
What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges takes about 6 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 335 pages, about 92,125 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The coming-of-age of a 24-year-old grocery clerk who has spent his entire life in an Iowa town with a population of 1091.
Subjects: City and town life, Family, Fiction, Young men, Families, Fiction, general
