How long does it take to read Joe Turner's Come and Gone?
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson takes about 1 hour 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 58 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 107 pages, about 29,425 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.
Subjects: Drama, Boardinghouses, African Americans, Nineteen tens, African American families, Nineteen nineties
