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That old ace in the hole : a novel / Annie Proulx.

Summary:

Bob 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0743242483
ISBN: 9780743242486
ISBN: 0684813076
ISBN: 9780684813073
Physical Description: xii, 361 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2002]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Global Pork Rind 1 -- 2. Art Plastic 13 -- 3. On the Road Again 23 -- 4. Evil Fat Boy 31 -- 5. No Room in Cowboy Rose 43 -- 6. Sheriff Hugh Dough 49 -- 7. Rural Compendium 61 -- 8. Pioneer Fronk 73 -- 9. Busted Star 85 -- 10. Old Dog 105 -- 11. Tater Crouch 119 -- 12. Rope Butt 137 -- 13. Habakuk's Luck 151 -- 14. Young Couple 161 -- 15. Abel and Cain 171 -- 16. Curiosity Killed the Cat 189 -- 17. Devil's Hatband 191 -- 18. Just a Few Questions 197 -- 19. Sheriff's Office 203 -- 20. Everything's O.K. So Far 209 -- 21. Triple Cross 223 -- 22. Ribeye Writes 237 -- 23. Rich Orlando 243 -- 24. Violet's Night on the Town 253 -- 25. Top Sales 261 -- 26. Brother Mesquite 273 -- 27. Trip to Denver 281 -- 28. Used but Not Abused 295 -- 29. Ribeye Cluke's Office 299 -- 30. Quick Change 305 -- 31. Mrs. Betty Doak 319 -- 32. Ace in the Hole 327 -- 33. Failure 337 -- 34. Barbwire 343.