About This Book
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCar...
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Reading Time Estimates
5h 19m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 50m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 44m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 57,475 words📅 8 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
3 h 50 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 15 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
6 h 23 min
Audio 2x
3 h 12 min
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