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How long does it take to read The Devil All the Time?

Donald Ray Pollock

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock takes about 4 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 47 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2011. 261 pages, about 71,775 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 59 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 47 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 59 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There{u2019}s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can{u2019}t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi{u00AD}cial blood he pours on his prayer log. There{u2019}s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America{u2019}s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There{u2019}s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte{u2019}s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right"--Jacket.

Subjects: Rural conditions, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Ohio, fiction

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