How long does it take to read Short Cuts?
selected stories
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1993. 159 pages, about 43,725 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gathers the nine stories that were the basis for the Robert Altman motion picture.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories
