by Upton Sinclair · Edhasa Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435017770
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«Petróleo» is the novel by Upton Sinclair, published by Edhasa Pocket in paperback (770 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Arnold Ross, a self-made oil magnate, and his idealistic son Bun, whose journey shows California in the 1920s, a setting that starts in Beach City (Long Beach). Among union leaders, unscrupulous bankers and corrupt politicians, the plot reflects real economic scandals, such as those of the Ohio Gang during Warren G. Harding's administration.
The cover states that the novel inspired the movie «Pozos de Ambición» (There Will Be Blood), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Recommended for readers of social fiction and for those seeking the historical and literary context behind Paul Thomas Anderson's movie.
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
