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The rib king : a novel / Ladee Hubbard.
"For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the household's all-black staff, along with "Miss Mamie," the talented cook, pretty new maid Jennie Williams, and three young kitchen apprentices - the latest orphan boys Mr. Barclay has taken in to "civilize" - boys like August. But the Barclays fortunes have fallen, and their money is almost gone. When a prospective business associate proposes selling Miss Mamie's delicious rib sauce to local markets under the brand name "The Rib King" - using a caricature of a wildly grinning August on the label - Mr. Barclay, desperate for cash, agrees. Yet neither Miss Mamie nor August will see a dime. Humiliated, August grows increasingly distraught, his anger building to a rage that explodes in shocking tragedy. "--Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062979063
- ISBN: 006297906X
- ISBN: 9780062979070
- Physical Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | African American household employees > Fiction. Upper class families > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Exploitation > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cambria County Library | FICTION Hub (Text) | 85131001755082 | CACM Fiction | Available | - |
