Fire in Beulah
by Rilla Askew
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670888435
- ISBN 13
- 9780670888436
- Seller
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
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Synopsis
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 storiesand those of others close to themunfold 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.
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- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200316
- Title
- Fire in Beulah
- Author
- Rilla Askew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670888435
- ISBN 13
- 9780670888436
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- January 2001
- Pages
- 352
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