That Old Ace in the Hole (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743242486)

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

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.

Author: Annie Proulx
ISBN-10: 0743242483
ISBN-13: 9780743242486
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2003
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/07/2003 pg. 28
Commonweal 12/03/2004 pg. 27