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| That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx | ||
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| 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.
He is determined not to turn out like his parents who left him on his Uncle
Tam's doorstep as a child. And he is afflicted by the tendency to believe
his own daydreams - to the point of forgetting that he made them up in the
first place. Bob ends up in Woolybucket, a town whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of booms and busts in panhandle country - cattle ranching, tornadoes, dust storms, gas and oil days, feedlot proliferation. These tough men and women seem to grow stronger with age, seasoned by the rigours of their life, from ancient Freda Beautyrooms who controls a ranch Bob covets, to Ace Crouch, the windmiller who defies the hog farms. They aren't the only obstacles in Bob's path. As he settles in at La Von Fronk's bunkhouse and lends a hand at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, Bob is forced to question everything. With characteristic gusto and razor wit, Annie Proulx serves up a rich mix of history, landscape and quixotic Texan life in this novel about chasing dreams in a corporate world. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Annie Proulx published her first novel Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novel, The Accordion Crimes, the best-selling short story collection, Close Range, and an earlier short story collection, Heart Songs. |
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