How long does it take to read Period?
Period by Dennis Cooper takes about 2 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours
An evening's read
First published 2000. 109 pages, about 29,975 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Period - the end of the sentence, and the final statement of Cooper's five-book cycle. In it, Cooper has taken his familiar themes - strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpability of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communications of feeling - and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power. Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret websites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and Outsider art, Period is at once a monument to the memory of George Miles - the object of obsession in Closer - and a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Gay men, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Gay men--fiction
