That Old Ace in the Hole
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 -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panahandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed first hand tornadoes, dust storms, and the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4165-8892-4
- EAN: 9781416588924
- Produktnummer: 14617536
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 461 KB
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Annie Proulx
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