Oil! -- Upton Sinclair

<b>Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future</b> <p/><b>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/>Perhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson's film <i>There Will Be Blood</i>, Upton Sinclair's novel <i>Oil!</i> burst into the literary limelight amid soaring petroleum profits and gaping inequalities in 1927. By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, <i>Oil!</i> ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed; and while anticipating how fossil fuels have shaped the dilemmas of our present, it also looks toward a greener, more inclusive, and altogether more livable world yet to come. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre that illuminates the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Upton Sinclair<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 04/18/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 608<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.30h x 5.20w x 1.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143137443<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Upton Sinclair</b> (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore. At age fifteen, he began writing a series of dime novels in order to pay for his education at the City College of New York. He was later accepted to do graduate work at Columbia, and while there he published a number of novels, including <i>The Jour