It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read The Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: A deftly comic novel of family and society set in 1960s Chicago/divDIV “Being free with the permission of society is not being free at all,” says William Popper, the central character in this quietly ironic first novel. William and his girlfriend, Jane, are sensible University of Chicago graduates, happy lovers, children of good families—and self-described anarchists. When William accidentally runs over an elderly woman and is charged with manslaughter, their lives veer unexpectedly off path. As the consequences of William’s accident compound, the two find themselves butting up against the society they seek to drop out of./divDIV /divDIVThis National Book Award–nominated debut still speaks to those who remain idealistic in a cynical world./div/div
The Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.
This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read The Pursuit of Happiness aloud.
The Pursuit of Happiness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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