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Oil!
Sign in to savethumb|right|Scan of the 1927 first edition Oil! is an American novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.
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- Author
- Upton Sinclair
- First published
- 1927
- Editions
- 58
- Subjects
- Fiction, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum industry and trade in fiction, Southern california in fiction, Motion picture industry, Motion picture industry in fiction, Drama, California in fiction
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- 1926-00-00
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thumb|right|Scan of the 1927 first edition Oil! is an American novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.
The main character is James Arnold Ross Jr., nicknamed Bunny, son of an oil tycoon. Bunny's sympathetic feelings toward oilfield workers and socialists provoke arguments with his father throughout the story. The beginning of the novel served as a loose inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood.