LEADER 00000nim a22005295a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125050128.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160515s2002 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9780743548830 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 0743548833 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ sas_9780743548830_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11639787 037 11639787|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813/.54|221 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Proulx, Annie. 245 10 That old ace in the hole|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cAnnie Proulx. 250 Abridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bSimon & Schuster Audio,|c2002. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 21 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Arliss Howard. 520 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Young men|vFiction. 650 0 Sound recordings. 650 0 Audiobooks. 650 0 Fiction on cassette. 651 0 Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.)|vFiction. 651 0 Texas Panhandle (Tex.)|vFiction. 651 0 Denver (Colo.)|vFiction. 655 7 Bildungsromans.|2gsafd 700 1 Howard, Arliss. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11639787?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ sas_9780743548830_180.jpeg