Oil

From Library Journal
Sinclairs 1927 novel did for Californias oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicagos meat-packing factories. The plot follows the clash between an oil developer and his son. Typical of Sinclair, there are undertones here of socialism and sympathy for the common working stiff. Though the book is not out of print, this is the only paperback currently available.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
He does his little bit of muck-raking. . . but the glorious story of the oil man and his son rushes on. It is a marvelous panorama of Southern California life. It is storytelling with an edge on it. — The New Republic

Oil! remains the most ambitious Southern California novel of the 1920s. . . . Chosen by the Literary Guild, Oil! made the best-seller list. Its sales were helped along when Sinclair, hoping to get arrested, personally hawked copies of the book on the streets of Boston, after it was banned there for its outspoken advocacy of birth control. — Kevin Starr, Endangered Dreams –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Why Buy A Oil?
This novel originates from the Teapot Dome oil scandal of President Warren Harding as oil barons bribe politicians. It is about greed and the oil boom of Southern California in the 1920s. It is wrapped up in evangelic crusades by shifty preachers and leftist labor activists. Oil is a provoking novel as a man and his son plunge into the oil drilling business and all that they do and what is around them. Bunny the son becomes a red millionaire and is a radical strike leader. The 2007 highly acclaimed movie There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and staring Daniel Day-Lewis is an adaptation of Sinclairs Oil! Read this novel and then see the movie. A Collectors EDition.

Customer Reviews & Opinions

intellectual treat
The handling of social issues was much more diverse than the movie “There Will Be Blood.” The oil man is not nearly as bad in the book, but the industry is a pathetic mess.

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