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That old ace in the hole, Annie Proulx

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That old ace in the hole, Annie Proulx

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

That old ace in the hole

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Annie Proulx

Summary

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole 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 witnessed first hand tornadoes, dust storms, and 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 Caf?, 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, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction

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