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The rib king : a novel
- Title
- The rib king : a novel / Ladee Hubbard.
- Author
- Hubbard, Ladee
- Publication
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-1450 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-6031 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 370 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1450
- ISBN
- 9780062979063
- 006297906X
- LCCN
- 2020073155
- OCLC
- 1229094282
- Author
- Hubbard, Ladee, author.
- Title
- The rib king : a novel / Ladee Hubbard.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1450JFE 21-6031