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PublisherScribner
ISBN-100684813076
ISBN-139780684813073
eBay Product ID (ePID)469317
Product Key Features
Book TitleThat Old Ace in the Hole
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
AuthorAnnie Proulx
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.7 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-030462
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of ContentContents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS1. Global Pork Rind2. Art Plastic3. On the Road Again4. The Evil Fat Boy5. No Room in Cowboy Rose6. Sheriff Hugh Dough7.The Rural Compendium8. Pioneer Fronk9. The Busted Star10. Old Dog11. Tater Crouch12. Rope Butt13. Habakuk's Luck14. The Young Couple15. Abel and Cain16. Curiosity Killed the Cat17. The Devil's Hatband18. Just a Few Questions19. The Sheriff's Office20. Everything's O.K. So Far21. Triple Cross22. Ribeye Writes23. Rich Orlando24. Violet's Night on the Town25. Top Sales26. Brother Mesquite27. Trip to Denver28. Used but Not Abused29. Ribeye Cluke's Office30. Quick Change31. Mrs. Betty Doak32. Ace in the Hole33. Failure34. Barbwire
Synopsis¿Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century¿and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.¿, InThat Old Ace in the Hole,Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx has written an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. The novel, Proulx's fourth, is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, and he takes a job with Global Pork Rind -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who survived tornadoes and dust storms, and witnessed firsthand the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands.Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it.Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate,That Old Ace in the Holetracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.R697T48 2003
