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Oil!

A Novel

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Yazan: Upton Sinclair
Seslendiren: Grover Gardner
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This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California’s early oil industry.

Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. At the center of the novel are an oil developer and his son. As the story moves forward, the divide between father and son grows until the young man is fighting the very industry that brought his father great success.

Sinclair’s glorious 1927 epic endures as one of our most powerful American novels of social injustice.

©1926 , 1927 by Upton Sinclair. © renewed 1954 by David Sinclair (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Historical Fiction Kurgu Sosyalizm Rusya
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“Grover Gardner does a superb job narrating, always conveying the humanity of the main characters while capturing the humor of the many caricatured stereotypes.”

(SoundCommentary.com)

“A solid and believable performance that will engage listeners with its simplicity and earnestness…Gardner never fails to deliver with passion and vigor

(AudioFile)

“A tremendous piece of work.”

(The Nation)

“He does his little bit of muckraking…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.”

(New Republic)

“Sinclair’s 1927 novel did for California’s oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago’s meat-packing factories.”

(Library Journal)
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really enjoyed the jungle by the same author and narrator, they are turning into two of my favourites.

loved the book, gets the message across without being preachy

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Bunny Ross is conscientiously ethical, intelligent, inquisitive and likeable. Among his friends are some very poor and some badly oppressed people whom he admires and loves greatly. He’s the only-son of one of America’s first oil magnates. He rides the California oil boom of the early Twentieth Century and the bitter class war of Bolshevism at the same time … and experiences the exquisite torture of a deep personal investment in both sides. This book is a long, slow, heart-aching march into the valley of the shadow of death. It’s a brilliantly written longitudinal case study of personal morality for one who has both money and influence. Truth and right go one way, Dad and expectations go another. I’ll say it again : brilliant.

Brilliant Historical Geo-Politico-Economic (better than I’m making it sound)!

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Read the book a few years back, this is a great story, well read here.

Brilliant

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Wonderful but very different to the film as much more about politics. Still relevant today

Wonderful but very different to the film

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Karate man was a crazy guy where did he butter his knob if they didn’t catch him ?

Not for everyone but for me was great

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