A Widow for One Year: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Widow for One Year runs 24.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Guidall (about 16.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 24.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 49 days |
| 1 hour / day | 25 days |
| 2 hours / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 17 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 24.1 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 5,930 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by George Guidall
George Guidall narrates 227 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,389 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
69 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Widow for One Year is an audiobook by John Irving: a 24.1-hour unabridged recording, read by George Guidall, released July 12, 2005, on the Coming of Age and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 24.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- George Guidall
- Released
- July 12, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Coming of Age, Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780739320921
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Widow for One Year as an audiobook?
A Widow for One Year runs 24.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 16.1 hours.
Is A Widow for One Year free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Widow for One Year?
A Widow for One Year is narrated by George Guidall.
Is A Widow for One Year worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 16.1 hours, saving 8 hours.