ISBN: 0743242483
Godina izdanja: 2003
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Annie Proulx - That Old Ace in the Hole
Scribner, 2003
359 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

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.

`Proulx is our laureate of landscape, the expansive descriptions of natural phenomena worthy of Barry Lopez or Edward Hoagland. [Her] fiction has become even richer book by book. With this funny and haunting panorama. she has managed to outdo her previous outdoing.`
-The New York Observer
F rom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes That Old Ace in the Hole, 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, helpis out at Cy Frease`s Old Dog Cafe, 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 con temporary fiction
`Annie Proulx`s writing is charged with wit-alive, funny, packed with brilliantly original images`
-USA Todas
`[In] That Old Ace in the Hole, Proulx`s hardscrabble wit and wisdom are heightened by the force of her language-her bone-deep feel for its curves and crevices.`
The Boston Globe
ANNIE PROULX is the acclaimed author of The Shipping News and two other novels, Postcards and Accordion Crimes, and the story collections Heart Songs and Close Rurge. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, and a PEN/Faulkner, she lives in Wyoming and Newfoundland.


Fiction, Contemporary, 0743242483