Fire in Beulah - Couverture rigide

Askew, Rilla

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670888435 ISBN 13 : 9780670888436

Editeur : Viking, 2001

Synopsis

The author of The Mercy Seat serves up a stunning new novel set in 1920s Oklahoma that chronicles the complex relationship that exists between Althea Whiteside, the wife of an oil wildcatter, and her black maid, Graceful, as they become caught up in the events surrounding the Tulsa race riot of 1921. 15,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories—and those of others close to them—unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hatred, lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, when whites burned the city's properous black community. Askew's award-winning first novel, The Mercy Seat, was praised for its astute diepiction of family bonds and the beauty of American landscape. Now she explores the American race story with the same perception.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rilla Askew is the author of Strange Business, a collection of stories, and of the novel The Mercy Seat, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Award and winner of the Western Heritage Award and the Oklahoma Book Award. She divides her time between the San Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and upstate New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670888435
• ISBN 13: 9780670888436
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible