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Fire in Beulah / Rilla Askew.
LIBRA PS3551.S545 F57 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Askew, Rilla.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oil fields--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Oil fields.
- Riots--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Riots.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Oklahoma--Race relations--Fiction.
- Oklahoma.
- Oklahoma--History--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful. Both are caught in the relentless currents of family and violence. Their contrapuntual stories and those of others close to them unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous black section to the ground."--Jacket.
- Notes:
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2002
- Other Format:
- Online version: Askew, Rilla. Fire in Beulah.
- ISBN:
- 0670888435
- 9780670888436
- 9780142000243
- 0142000248
- OCLC:
- 44550506
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