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Oil!

Upton Sinclair

Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926-27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social...

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The audio book was listened to by the author of Mobility, and its main character, a young boy named Bunny, who follows his father around in the oil business, is the inspiration for the main character in Mobility.

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And I started listening to the audio book of the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair.

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The audio book was listened to by the author of Mobility, and its main character, a young boy named Bunny, who follows his father around in the oil business, is the inspiration for the main character in Mobility.

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And I started listening to the audio book of the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair.

And but so the main character of Oil, the novel is named Bunny. He's a boy and he starts out as like a young, like a tween or teenager and he's like a little oil scion and he follows his father around and watches as he like buys up oil leases and then he meets like a noble socialist who kind of teaches him about, you know, workers in the oil fields and it just sort of follows him for like hundreds of pages.

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It was mentioned as the basis for the movie There Will Be Blood, though having little to no resemblance to it; its main character, a boy named Bunny, inspired a similar character in Mobility.

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And I started listening to the audio book of the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair.

That's What There Will Be Blood is based on, although they have like almost nothing in common.

I think he used like the first 30 pages and then just like threw away the rest of the book I optioned it, that's kind of expensive.

And but so the main character of Oil, the novel is named Bunny. He's a boy and he starts out as like a young, like a tween or teenager and he's like a little oil scion and he follows his father around and watches as he like buys up oil leases and then he meets like a noble socialist who kind of teaches him about, you know, workers in the oil fields and it just sort of follows him for like hundreds of pages.

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