How long does it take to read The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 320 pages, about 88,000 words. Written for young adults.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 64 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavior
Subjects: Friendship, fiction, Georgia, fiction, Fiction, Teenage girls, Racism, Deaf
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