How many pages is Country People?

299 pages, which is about 90,000 words and 6 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.

Is Country People worth reading?

Only 8 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 299 pages and about 6 hrs of your time, or 3½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is the Country People audiobook?

About 10 hrs, estimated from the 90,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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Country People

Name: Country People
Author: Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason

6 hrsto read

At your speed≈ 6 hrs

Pages299

Audiobook≈ 10 hrs

299 pages works out to roughly 90,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 6 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 8 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

How long does it take to read Country People?

Country People is 299 pages, or roughly 90,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Country People at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	8½ hrs
Average	250	6 hrs
Fast	400	3½ hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — use the reading-speed control to set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts.

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Common questions

How long does it take to read Country People?: About 6 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Country People runs 299 pages, roughly 90,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 8½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3½ hrs.
How many pages is Country People?: 299 pages, which is about 90,000 words and 6 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is Country People worth reading?: Only 8 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 299 pages and about 6 hrs of your time, or 3½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the Country People audiobook?: About 10 hrs, estimated from the 90,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family.…

So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate’s words, a great capacity “to fall in with anyone, anywhere.” And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas. The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre—perhaps ridiculous—local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all. Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.