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contemporary,fiction,literary,literature and fiction, Bob Dollar is a reluctant land swindler. When the 25-year-old protagonist in Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole signs on as a location scout for Global Pork Rind, an industrial hog farming corporation, he has no idea what kind of moral quandaries he's in for. Well, maybe he does. His assignment, after all, is to infiltrate a tiny town in the Texas Panhandle and find a tract of land his employer can turn into an industrial hog farm. Bob tells the locals he's scouting for luxury home developers ("They feel there is potential here"), but as a cover story it's less than clever. Only a fool would build mansions in the godforsaken Panhandle country, a place of light soil, bad wind, killing drought, and end-of-world thunder. "To live here," one Panhandler tells Bob, "it sure helps if you are half cow and half mesquite and all crazy." The narrative follows Bob's hapless quest to ink a deal, but Proulx's mission is bigger than that. She's out to tell the story of the Panhandle itself, to write an entirely new literary territory into existence. With the help of a menagerie of eccentric characters set down in "the most complicated part of North America," Proulx succeeds admirably. --Claire Dederer.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Seattlegoodwill.
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 demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction. Audio CD, Edition: Abridged, Format: Abridged, Format: Audiobook, Label: Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Product group: Book, Published: 2002-12-01, Release date: 2002-12-10, Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio, Sales rank: 3271865.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books.
2003 FOURTH ESTATE(HarperCollins) mass market paperback, 3rd printing. British Import. ISBN: 9780007161829. Annie Proulx (Close Range: Wyoming Stories). A young man is tasked to find the perfect place to build a hog farm. The only problem is that he meets the residents of the town and learns the value of tradition, Paperback, Ausgabe: New Ed, Format: Import, Label: HarperPerennial, HarperPerennial, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2004, Studio: HarperPerennial, Verkaufsrang: 14047059.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Coas Books, Inc. [50941], Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Yard Sale Store.
Recorded Books, 2003 Audio Book. Good. Audio CD. 12 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection.Some library markings. We will polish each Audio CD for you to promote a smooth listening experience. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CD performance..

Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Yard Sale Store [50261081], Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
12 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection.Some library markings. We will polish each Audio CD for you to promote a smooth listening experience. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CD performance.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Yard Sale Store, NY, Narrowsburg, [RE:5].
12 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library markings. We will polish each Audio CD for you to promote a smooth listening experience. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CD performance. Audio CD.

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That-Old-Ace-in-the-Hole~~Annie-Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ricehoppers13.
The story captures a remote part of America and its people with endearing clarity. Audio CD, Edition: Unabridged, Format: Unabridged, Format: Audiobook, Label: Recorded Books, LLC, Recorded Books, LLC, Product group: Book, Published: 2003, Studio: Recorded Books, LLC, Sales rank: 4131760.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Sosa Media.
The story captures a remote part of America and its people with endearing clarity. Audio CD, Edition: Unabridged, Format: Unabridged, Format: Audiobook, Label: Recorded Books, LLC, Recorded Books, LLC, Product group: Book, Published: 2003, Studio: Recorded Books, LLC, Sales rank: 2090072.