That old ace in the hole: a novel

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(0)
4 star
 
(0)
3 star
 
(0)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(1)
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language:
English
Description
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 tryingto 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 panahandles 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 fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, 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, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
Also in This Series
More Like This
More Details
ISBN:
9780743242486
9781402542282
9781442342613
9780743548830
9780743240925
9781490665245
9780684813073
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID1a54d35a-2f6e-205a-4101-5e451b0ca858
Grouping Titlethat old ace in the hole
Grouping Authorannie proulx
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2024-03-28 05:46:22AM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 05:48:31AM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Howard, Arliss
Stechschulte, Tom
author
Proulx, Annie
author2-role
Howard, Arliss,reader
Stechschulte, Tom
Stechschulte, Tom,reader
hoopla digital
author_display
Proulx, Annie
available_at_ex
Essex Library Association
detailed_location_ex
Essex Adult Large Print Fiction
display_description
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 tryingto 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 panahandles 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 fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, 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, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
format_category_ex
Audio Books
Books
format_ex
Book
CD Audiobook
Large Print
id
1a54d35a-2f6e-205a-4101-5e451b0ca858
isbn
9780684813073
9780743240925
9780743242486
9780743548830
9781402542282
9781442342613
9781490665245
itype_ex
ADULT BOOK
ADULT LARGE PRINT
ADULT MUSIC CD
last_indexed
2024-03-28T11:48:31.950Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
Novels
local_callnumber_ex
LP PROULX
owning_library_ex
Essex Library Association
owning_location_ex
Essex Library Association
primary_isbn
9780743242486
publishDate
2002
2003
2011
2015
publisher
Recorded Books
Recorded Books, Inc
Scribner
Simon & Schuster Audio
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Bildungsromans
Denver (Colo.) -- Fiction
Farms -- Fiction
Fiction
Large type books
Literature -- Fiction
Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.) -- Fiction
Rural development -- Fiction
Texas Panhandle (Tex.) -- Fiction
Western fiction
Young men -- Fiction
title_display
That old ace in the hole : a novel
title_full
That Old Ace in the Hole [electronic resource] / Annie Proulx
That old ace in the hole : a novel / Annie Proulx
That old ace in the hole by Annie Proulx
title_short
That old ace in the hole
title_sub
a novel
topic_facet
Farms
Large type books
Literature
Rural development
Young men

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
ils:.b15937264.i26753479Ledyard/Bill Audio BooksCD F Proulx1falsefalseOn Shelflbgbr
hoopla:MWT13537265Online Hoopla CollectionOnline HooplaeAudiobookAudio Books1falsetrueHooplahttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13537265?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435Available Online
hoopla:MWT12578137Online Hoopla CollectionOnline HooplaeAudiobookAudio Books1falsetrueHooplahttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12578137?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435Available Online
ils:.b1048792x.i11257337East Lyme Public Adult Large Print CollectionLTE Proulx, Annie (That Old)1falsefalseOn Shelfelalp
ils:.b1048792x.i11257349Essex Adult Large Print FictionLP PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfexalf
ils:.b1048792x.i11257362Wallingford Adult Large PrintLP PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfwaal
ils:.b1048792x.i11257325Ledyard/Bill Large PrintLP Proulx1falsefalseOn Shelflbal
ils:.b11634406.i14133192Guilford Adult FictionFIC PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfguaf
ils:.b11634406.i14133167East Haddam/Rathbun A FictionFIC PRO1falsefalseOn Shelfraaf
ils:.b11634406.i6600178xNorth Stonington/Wheeler Adult FictionFIC PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfnsaf
ils:.b11634406.i14133271New London Adult FictionFIC PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfnlaf
ils:.b11634406.i29017129Madison/Scranton Adult FictionF PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfmaaf
ils:.b11634406.i32852812Orange/Case Adult Fiction BookFiction Proulx1falsefalseOn Shelforaf
ils:.b11634406.i14133143Wallingford Adult FictionPROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfwaaf
ils:.b11634406.i69149665Lyme Adult FictionFIC PRO1falsefalseOn Shelflyaf
ils:.b11634406.i14133179East Lyme Public Adult FictionProulx, Annie (That)1falsefalseOn Shelfelaf
ils:.b11634406.i14133337Westbrook Adult FictionF PRO1falsefalseOn Shelfwsaf
ils:.b11634406.i47579791Old Saybrook/Acton Adult FictionF PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfosaf
ils:.b11634406.i51445864Hamden/Miller Adult FictionFIC/PROULX1falsefalseOn Shelfhmaf
ils:.b11634406.i49636108Bethany/Clark Adult CollectionFIC PRO1falsefalseOn Shelfbea
ils:.b11634406.i66822890Branford/Blackstone Adult FictionFIC.1falsefalseOn Shelfbraf
hoopla:MWT11639787Online Hoopla CollectionOnline HooplaeAudiobookAudio Books1falsetrueHooplahttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11639787?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435Available Online
ils:.b17350906.i43251973Woodbridge Adult FictionFIC PROULX1falsefalseDue Apr 6, 2024wdaf

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
ils:.b15937264CD AudiobookAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglishRecorded Booksp200312 sound discs (14.5 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
hoopla:MWT13537265eAudiobookAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglishRecorded Books, Inc20151 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 20 min.)) : digital.
hoopla:MWT12578137eAudiobookAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglishSimon & Schuster Audio20111 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 20 min.)) : digital.
ils:.b1048792xLarge PrintBooks[Large print ed.]EnglishScribner2002538 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
ils:.b11634406BookBooksEnglishScribnerc2002xii, 361 p. ; 25 cm.
hoopla:MWT11639787eAudiobookAudio BooksAbridgedEnglishSimon & Schuster Audio20021 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 21 min.)) : digital.1
ils:.b17350906BookBooks1st Scribner trade paperback edEnglishScribner2003, c2002xiv, 361 p. ; 21 cm.

scoping_details_ex

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesLocal Url
ils:.b15937264.i26753479On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b1048792x.i11257337On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b1048792x.i11257349On ShelfOn Shelftruetruetruefalsefalsetrue9999
ils:.b1048792x.i11257362On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b1048792x.i11257325On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133192On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133167On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i6600178xOn ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133271On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i29017129On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i32852812On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133143On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i69149665On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133179On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i14133337On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i47579791On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i51445864On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i49636108On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b11634406.i66822890On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b17350906.i43251973Checked OutChecked Outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsefalse9999