Illinois Authors

Penguin, London : 2008.

Oil has been struck in Southern California. Soon the landscape is carved up as the drilling begins. One man stands to profit from it - Mr. J. Arnold Ross, a kindly tycoon who gets rich by buying up land cheap and bribing public officials to get the work done quickly. But this brings him into conflict with his beloved son, Bunny whose growing sympathy with oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Meanwhile Bunny's childhood friend, Paul, has become involved in the unions, leading to a fateful clash with capitalist forces. Peopled by diverse characters from strike leaders to politicians, evangelist preachers to Hollywood starlets, the very rich to the very poor, Oil! is a humorous and compelling story of corruption and class warfare, idealism and friendship.--Jacket.

Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder : ©1976.