LCS Logo         Lake Chapala Society - Since 1955

That Old Ace in the Hole (Record no. 850)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 01884nam a2200193 4500
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2002030462
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780684813073
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 670435496
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS3566.R697 T48
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Annie Proulx
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title That Old Ace in the Hole
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Scribner
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2002
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 384 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In "That Old Ace in the Hole," Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx has written an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. The novel, Proulx's fourth, is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, and he takes a job with Global Pork Rind -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles 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 survived tornadoes and dust storms, and witnessed firsthand 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 Cafe, 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, "That Old Ace in the Hole" tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Culture/Customs
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Adventure
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Copy number Price effective from Koha item type
        Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   HC PROU 32342 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

Powered by Koha