How long does it take to read Suttree?
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy takes about 10 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1979. 561 pages, about 154,275 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
Subjects: Fiction, Men, Fishers, East tennessee in fiction, Fishers in fiction, Men in fiction
