That Old Ace In The Hole [abridged]

  • Author: Annie Proulx
  • Narrator: Arliss Howard
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 6:21:14
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Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

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.

Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.

Chapters

  • 001 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 46min
  • 002 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 22min
  • 003 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 21min
  • 004 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 15min
  • 005 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 20min
  • 006 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 16min
  • 007 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 27min
  • 008 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 05min
  • 009 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 14min
  • 010 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 27min
  • 011 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 15min
  • 012 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 51min
  • 013 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 06min
  • 014 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 07min
  • 015 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 18min
  • 016 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 13min
  • 017 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 15min
  • 018 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 11min
  • 019 ThatOldAceInTheHole

    Duration: 21min
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