Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole 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, when 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. That Old Ace in the Hole The brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, author of THE SHIPPING NEWS. A richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor wit and a masterly sense of . · That Old Ace in the Hole. by Annie Proulx. Fourth Estate £, pp At one point in That Old Ace in the Hole, a truck arrives to deliver equipment to a café soon to open up. It's from Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx pp, Fourth Estate, £ The latest instalment in Annie Proulx's mission to colonise the forgotten outposts of rural America takes us to the Texas. "That Old Ace in the Hole "(Reviewed by Mary Whipple NOV 1, ) "To live here it sure helps if you are half cow " Stating that "nothing of the original prairie remain[s]," Proulx presents the Texas Panhandle through the eyes of year-old Bob Dollar, a newcomer arriving by car, who sees railroad tracks, grain elevators, drive-in restaurants, "welcome to" signs with mottoes, a plywood. In this book, Proulx has created a homage to that landscape which she loves, and in doing so, hopes to instill a tiny fraction of that same reverence within us. I'm not about to go ride off into the sunset on Trigger or buy a pet buffalo now after reading 'That Old Ace in the Hole', but that is not to say that the book hasn't affected me.
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. That Old Ace in the Hole is a novel by Annie Proulx. Plot. Bob Dollar was abandoned by his parents and was brought up by his eccentric uncle. Dollar is sent by his employer, the multinational "Global Pork Rind Corporation", to scout for locations for intensive hog farming in the Texas Panhandle. USA Today Annie Proulx's writing is charged with wit -- alive, funny, packed with brilliantly original images. The Boston Globe [In] That Old Ace in the Hole, Proulx's hardscrabble wit and wisdom are heightened by the force of her language -- her bone-deep feel for its curves and crevices.
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