How long does it take to read Train Dreams?
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson takes about 2 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2006. 116 pages, about 31,900 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss
Subjects: Railroad construction workers, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, historical, West (u.s.), fiction, History
