How long does it take to read The Visiting Privilege?
The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams takes about 8 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 490 pages, about 134,750 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Legendary Writer's First collection in more than ten years - and finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singluar achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and eachy one of them is available here. -- from dust jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author)
