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On behalf of his employer, Global Pork Rind, Bob Dollar travels to the Texas panhandle town of Woolybucket in search of land suitable for hog farms. He meets with some resistance from the eccentric collection of locals, who have different ideas about the fate of their lands. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Funny, deft, and sharply told, Proulx's latest suffers from excessive local color in parts, but it's engaging and worthwhile--if not up to her usual level."
Kirkus Reviews (10/01/2002)
"Too much of the text feels like only partly digested research, without much happening despite the pileup of stories....But Proulx's luscious, somewhat wacky way with words remains intact...and by the final pages she has worked her old magic."
Atlantic Monthly - Barbara Hoffert (12/01/2002)
"[W]ith all its stylistic pleasures, its fresh humour, and its engaging range of interest in many different kinds of people and lives, the central characters of ACE IN THE HOLE fail to engage us emotionally. It's a modern allegory, full of tall tales about the men who made the West; and it's also more didactic and preachy than Proulx's other books....Sentence by sentence, Proulx is a great American writer, none better; but in this novel her research has taken over from her art."
Literary Review - Elaine Showalter (12/01/2002)
"...Proulx is essentially a short-story writer....The best parts of THAT OLD ACE IN THE HOLE are its portraits of individual characters, most of which could have been turned into short stories, but which are anomalies in a novel. Proulx recently announced that in future she would be sticking to short stories. It's probably the right decision."
London Review of Books - William Skidelsky (03/06/2003)
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