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Title	:	Oil!
Author	:	Upton Sinclair
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	April 30th 1997 by University of California Press (first published 1926)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

Oil!

Upton Sinclair

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 5150 Users | 602 Reviews

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In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

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Original Title:	Oil!
ISBN:	0520207270 (ISBN13: 9780520207271)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	James Arnold Ross, James Arnold "Bunny" Ross, Jr., Paul Watkins, Vernon Roscoe
Setting:	United States of America

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Ratings: 3.7 From 5150 Users | 602 Reviews

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The Jungle will always be Sinclair's most acclaimed work, and rightly so given its impact, but I believe that Oil! has just as much relevance to contemporary life, if not more so, and deserves to be as well-known as its more venerable sibling even if it did not spur the same reforms of the oil industry that The Jungle did for food preparation and handling. I was spurred to read it after a rewatch of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, and the novel is so different from, and more complex

There's no getting around the issue of talking about this book and not mentioning the film There Will Be Blood, so let's just get all that out of the way: they have very little in common and the film is far, far superior to the book. Anderson, who directed the film, has gone on the record saying he only really adapted about the first 150 pages of the novel before taking the story in his own, darker, more realistic direction. Anderson wisely focused his attention not on the son but on the oil

Oil! is one of my favorite American novels, because Sinclair was fascinated and bewildered by the beginnings of mass-consumer culture here in the U.S., and his descriptions here of oil rigs, cars, radios, jazz music, and Hollywood are very perceptive and eye-opening. Sinclair knew that we were losing something of ourselves as we bought into high convenience--but at the same time he loved driving fast on the newly paved hills of Southern California. The opening chapter is a tour-de-force

This review is based on 3/4 of the book. As much as I tried, I just could not force myself to finish it. Upton Sinclair is a fantastic storyteller and the first half of the book is great. His opening scene of driving through So Cal is excellent. He has a nice mix of descriptive prose, humor and a keen eye for things. If you've seen the movie "There Will Be Blood", its nothing like the book. I don't know how it can even be said the movie is based on it. Sinclair was also a flaming communist and

'There Will Be Blood' is LOOSELY based on this book; that is to say there is oil drilling in each and there's a creepy charlatan for a religious leader, but that's about it. The first half of this book was excellent and gives a real explanation of how oil drilling worked at the turn of the century. The second half of the book is really about socialism, as the main character (the son of the 'oil man') struggles between the greedy wealth of his father and his belief in worker's rights. I found the

Oil! gets five stars not because I fully endorse its political message, which ultimately advocates for a type of Socialist workers' utopia, but because it is -- whether right, wrong, or somewhere in between -- a message that deserves hearing and consideration.It's also disconcerting how closely the world of 1920s California echoes our own -- I often felt as if I were reading about the birth of our current world, from the beginnings of consumer culture to Sinclair's angst over mass

Few books have had on me the intellectual impact of Sinclair's "The Jungle," so it was with trepidation that I approached "Oil!"Why trepidation? Because I was afraid that it wouldn't be as good, and that Sinclair's god-like status in my brain would be jeopardized.I was wrong to worry.It's true that I'm only giving "Oil!" four stars, but that's only because there were times in the book when I noticed that the writing leaned so heavily on description (instead of action) as to be a little