
That Old Ace in the Hole
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Narrated by:
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Tom Stechschulte
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By:
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Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole 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, when 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 witnessed first-hand tornadoes, dust storms, and 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 $50 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. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
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Highly enjoyable. Annie Proulx at her best
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solid historical. interesting
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I’ve never been good at reviewing books, but I just wanted to give 100 stars and so many kudos to this magnificent writer!
Annie Prolux’ writing is incredible!
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Good listen
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Narration was terrific
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Great story
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Humorous
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Cowboys, Pigs, Bakelite and Windmills - Wonderful!
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There was one thing that made listening to the the book a little irritating. The narrator mispronounced several towns in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. It wouldn't have been hard to learn the correct pronounciations and it took away from some of the authenticity of the work. So it you're listening, he's butchering these names: Boise City, Oklahoma; Stinnet, Texas; Follett, Texas ... there were more, but these were the biggies.
Great story, but get the pronounciations right
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Novel but like a series of stories
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