{"product_id":"9780743242486","title":"That Old Ace in the Hole : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThat Old Ace in the Hole\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Annie Proulx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob 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, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRobust, often bawdy, strikingly original, \u003ci\u003eThat Old Ace in the Hole\u003c\/i\u003e 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 contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e Annie Proulx's writing is charged with wit -- alive, funny, packed with brilliantly original images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e [In] \u003ci\u003eThat Old Ace in the Hole,\u003c\/i\u003e Proulx's hardscrabble wit and wisdom are heightened by the force of her language -- her bone-deep feel for its curves and crevices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743242486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40591027962062,"sku":"9780743242486","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_83364990-1cdc-4250-9bd0-2f719035799b.jpg?v=1637747005","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743242486","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}