That Old Ace in the Hole: A Novel - Brossura

Proulx, Annie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743242483 ISBN 13: 9780743242486

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2003

Riassunto

Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be purchased and converted into pig farms for his pork rind employer, Bob Dollar meets the idiosyncratic residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

The New York Observer 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.

USA Today Annie Proulx's writing is charged with wit -- alive, funny, packed with brilliantly original images.

The Boston Globe [In] That Old Ace in the Hole, Proulx's hardscrabble wit and wisdom are heightened by the force of her language -- her bone-deep feel for its curves and crevices.

L'autore:

Annie Proulx is the acclaimed author of The Shipping News and two other novels, Postcards and Accordion Crimes, and the story collections Heart Songs and Close Range. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, and a PEN/Faulkner, she lives in Wyoming and Newfoundland.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743242483
• ISBN 13: 9780743242486
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384