How long does it take to read The Power of the Dog?
Thomas Savage
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage takes about 5 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 283 pages, about 77,825 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between them when one marries now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.
Subjects: Mothers and sons, Brothers, Fiction, Ranch life, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general
