That Old Ace in the Hole
by Annie Proulx
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007151523
- Reading Time
- ~6h 43min
That Old Ace in the Hole is a book by Annie Proulx. It has 384 pages.
About this book
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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How many pages is That Old Ace in the Hole?+
That Old Ace in the Hole has 384 pages.
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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 nov...
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That Old Ace in the Hole was written by Annie Proulx.