A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author runs 5.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Deborah Mcbride (about 3.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.7 hours, it is shorter than 81% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Deborah Mcbride
Deborah Mcbride narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 70 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,032 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author is an audiobook by Anne Tyler: a 5.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Deborah Mcbride, released October 24, 2019, on the Literary Fiction and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Deborah Mcbride
- Released
- October 24, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781473574526
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author as an audiobook?
A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author runs 5.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.8 hours.
Is A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author?
A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author is narrated by Deborah Mcbride.