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Title	:	That Old Ace in the Hole
Author	:	Annie Proulx
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2002 by Harper Perennial
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Literature. Literary Fiction

That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 4871 Users | 518 Reviews

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Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home.
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.

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Original Title:	That Old Ace in the Hole
ISBN:	0007151527 (ISBN13: 9780007151523)
Edition Language:	English

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I am new to 'goodreads' but thought that I would contribute by adding the books that I have read over the past year. It's a bit difficult to write a review months later. I remember enough about all of these books. They were 'good reads' or 'worthwhile reads' in my humble opinion. I am attempting to discuss what stood out for me.As a school teacher, I came across a wonderful donation option. A book for a dollar - any book, so I filled up a box for my students. For some odd reason, I held onto

Even when I don't love the story she is telling, Proulx's writing is so familiar and true that I love to read it. It nver fails that I will read a phrase, pause, read it over and over and be amazed that she has stumbled on a such a simply worded truth. Proulx is a writer I will always read. No matter what the story, her words are compelling.



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. My favorite from Annie Proulx so far.

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. My favorite from Annie Proulx so far.

I loved this book. After Bob Dollar left Denver imbarking on a new career buying up land for Hog farms,he gets to know the people of the Texas Pan-handle in his quest for the hog farms of which they are not interested. Annie Proulx brings these characters to life on the pages of her book. Bob finds himself admiring the antique jewelry these ladies of the pan-handle wear every day, because of his background in antiques.

4.5/5 starsDisclaimer: I listened to this with an audiobook, so my spellings of some names may be incorrect (I do not feel like looking them up). As a Texas panhandle girl, I was - tentatively - recommended this book by my high school English teacher. Proulx's "The Shipping News" was (and is) my favorite book, and after being stricken by the deep intensity with which she delved into little-explored Newfoundland in "News," I was eagerly curious about her take on the idiosyncratic Texas panhandle.