How long does it take to read Cities of the Plain?
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy takes about 5 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Border Trilogy
Previous: The Crossing
About 5 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 299 pages, about 82,225 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
Subjects: French fiction, Littérature western, Histoires d'amour, Ranch life, Fiction, New mexico, fiction
