That Old Ace In The Hole

That Old Ace in the Hole

About the Author Annie Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize for The Shipping News. She is the author of two other novels, Postcards, winner of the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and Accordion Crimes. She has also written two collections of short stories, Heart Songs and Other Stories and Close Range. She has won two O. Henry Prizes for her stories. In 2001, The Shipping News was made into a major motion picture. Annie Proulx lives in Wyoming and Newfoundland. 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 Caf