Ebook {Epub PDF} That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx

 · 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 Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. 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 . 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.

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. 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. Annie Proulx's writing is always beautiful, but her stories are often bleak. Ace in the Hole is anything but bleak. Fascinating, quirky characters rip through the rollicking history of the rural Texas and Oklahoma panhandle country. Laugh out loud funny at times, this story wrestles with bleak issues, but the characters rise above them.

Annie Proulx. Simon and Schuster, Dec 1, - Fiction - pages. 10 Reviews. 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 tryingto make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind. Annie Proulx's writing is always beautiful, but her stories are often bleak. Ace in the Hole is anything but bleak. Fascinating, quirky characters rip through the rollicking history of the rural Texas and Oklahoma panhandle country. Laugh out loud funny at times, this story wrestles with bleak issues, but the characters rise above them. 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.