That Old Ace In The Hole

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Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it.

Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.

Chapters

  • OldAceintheHole 001 IN

    Duration: 41s
  • OldAceintheHole 002 C001

    Duration: 31min
  • OldAceintheHole 003 C002

    Duration: 25min
  • OldAceintheHole 004 C003

    Duration: 19min
  • OldAceintheHole 005 C004

    Duration: 26min
  • OldAceintheHole 006 C005

    Duration: 14min
  • OldAceintheHole 007 C006

    Duration: 27min
  • OldAceintheHole 008 C007

    Duration: 27min
  • OldAceintheHole 009 C008

    Duration: 26min
  • OldAceintheHole 010 C009

    Duration: 51min
  • OldAceintheHole 011 C010

    Duration: 36min
  • OldAceintheHole 012 C011

    Duration: 48min
  • OldAceintheHole 013 C012

    Duration: 35min
  • OldAceintheHole 014 C013

    Duration: 24min
  • OldAceintheHole 015 C014

    Duration: 25min
  • OldAceintheHole 016 C015

    Duration: 45min
  • OldAceintheHole 017 C016

    Duration: 04min
  • OldAceintheHole 018 C017

    Duration: 14min
  • OldAceintheHole 019 C018

    Duration: 11min
  • OldAceintheHole 020 C019

    Duration: 10min
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