
- 384 pages
- English
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That Old Ace in the Hole
About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Colophon
- ALSO BY ANNIE PROULX
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. Global Pork Rind
- 2. Art Plastic
- 3. On the Road Again
- 4. The Evil Fat Boy
- 5. No Room in Cowboy Rose
- 6. Sheriff Hugh Dough
- 7. The Rural Compendium
- 8. Pioneer Fronk
- 9. The Busted Star
- 10. Old Dog
- 11. Tater Crouch
- 12. Rope Butt
- 13. Habakuk’s Luck
- 14. The Young Couple
- 15. Abel and Cain
- 16. Curiosity Killed the Cat
- 17. The Devil’s Hatband
- 18. Just a Few Questions
- 19. The Sheriff’s Office
- 20. Everything’s O.K. So Far
- 21. Triple Cross
- 22. Ribeye Writes
- 23. Rich Orlando
- 24. Violet’s Night on the Town
- 25. Top Sales
- 26. Brother Mesquite
- 27. Trip to Denver
- 28. Used but Not Abused
- 29. Ribeye Cluke’s Office
- 30. Quick Change
- 31. Mrs. Betty Doak
- 32. Ace in the Hole
- 33. Failure
- 34. Barbwire
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR