Description
Product ID: | 9780007151523 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | That Old Ace in the Hole |
Authors: | Author: Annie Proulx |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.‘That Old Ace in the Hole’ is a richly textured story of one man''s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place.Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, the newly hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, intends to do his job. Bob must contend with tough men and women like ancient Freda Beautyrooms, who controls a ranch he covets, and Ace Crouch, the windmiller who defies the hog farms. As Bob settles in at La Von Fronk’s bunkhouse and lends a hand at Cy Frease’s Old Dog Café, he is forced to question everything. |
Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2004-04-05 |