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Barcode30293101896863
LocationClark County
Call NoF Hubb
TitleThe rib king : a novel / Ladee Hubbard.
AuthorHubbard, Ladee. author.
CollectionF
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101896863F Hubb1/16/2021 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780062979063 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 006297906X (hardcover)
Personal Name Hubbard, Ladee. author.
Title Statement The rib king : a novel / Ladee Hubbard.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Physical Description 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. 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. Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, The Rib King is an unsparing examination of America’s fascination with black iconography and exploitation that redefines African American stereotypes in literature. In this powerful, disturbing, and timely novel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who and what they are not.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American household employees Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Upper class families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Race relations Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Exploitation Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Violence Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Orphans Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.

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