Fire in Beulah - Couverture rigide

Askew, Rilla

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670888435 ISBN 13 : 9780670888436

Editeur : Viking Books, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Askew Rilla

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0670888435
• ISBN 13: 9780670888436
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352