How long does it take to read City on Fire?
Garth Risk Hallberg
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg takes about 17 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 18 minutes
A long haul
First published 2015. 944 pages, about 259,600 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977, plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, Electric power failures, Forgiveness, Betrayal, Fiction
