Full name: That Old Ace in the Hole: A Novel

Author: Annie Proulx Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Western, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780007151523 9780743242486 0007151527 0743242483

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. Similar books: The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving The Fourth Hand by John Irving The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford Something Happened by Joseph Heller The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Lancelot by Walker Percy Ravelstein by Saul Bellow Losing Battles by Eudora Welty In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike The Water-Method Man by John Irving A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis Rabbit at Rest by John Updike Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie