That Old Ace In The Hole

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Annie Proulx - That Old Ace In The Hole.
Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, the newly-hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, intends to do his job. He... Lire la suite
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Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, the newly-hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, intends to do his job. He is determined not to turn out like his parents who left him on his Uncle Tam's doorstep as a child. And he is afflicted by the tendency to believe his own daydreams - to the point of forgetting that he made them up in the first place. Bob ends up in Woolybucket, a town whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of booms and busts in panhandle country - cattle ranching, tornadoes, dust storms, gas and oil days, feedlot proliferation. These tough men and women seem to grow stronger with age, seasoned by the rigours of their life, from ancient Freda Beautyrooms who controls a ranch Bob covets, to Ace Crouch, the windmiller who defies the hog farms. They oren't the only obstacles in Bob's path. As he settles in at La Von Fronk's bunkhouse and lends a hand at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, Bob is forced to question everything. With characteristic gusto and razor wit, Annie Proulx serves up a rich mix of history, landscape and quixotic Texan life in this novel about chasing dreams in a corporate world.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    27/02/2003
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    0-00-715420-8
  • EAN
    9780007154203
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    361 pages
  • Poids
    0.565 Kg
  • Dimensions
    15,5 cm × 23,5 cm × 3,0 cm

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