Book · by Jamaica Kincaid · first published 1994
How many pages is Lucy?
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid has a median of 164 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 163 to 165 pages.
How long will Lucy take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 18 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Farrar Straus Giroux | – | 163 | OL22632952M |
| 2002 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 176 | OL7424482M |
| 1994 | Picador | – | 164 | OL22443555M |
| 1991 | Plume | – | 163 | OL1545707M |
| 1991 | G.K. Hall | – | 165 | OL1536134M |
| 1990 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 163 | OL22813475M |
More by Jamaica Kincaid
All 3 books by Jamaica Kincaid with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Lucy?
- About 164 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 163 to 176 pages.
- How long does it take to read Lucy?
- About 2 h 53 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
- How many words is Lucy?
- Roughly 45,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).