That Old Ace in the Hole

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0743241479 
ISBN 13
9780743241472 
Category
Fiction/Littérature  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2019 
Publisher
Pages
384 
Abstract
In "That Old Ace in the Hole," Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx has written an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. The novel, Proulx's fourth, is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, and he takes a job with Global Pork Rind -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles 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.

Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, 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, "That Old Ace in the Hole" tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction. 
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Compétences : Lire Débutant complet : non
Descriptif : Roman
Résumé : Abandonné par ses parents partis en éclaireurs en Alaska pour n'en jamais revenir, Bob Dollar est élevé par l'oncle Tam, un brocanteur. A vingt-quatre ans, après de nombreux petits boulots, Bob est engagé par une porcherie industrielle, la " Mondiale de la Couenne ", qui l'envoie au fin fond du Texas pour repérer les terrains à racheter à des veuves désespérées par les odeurs pestilentielles, à des fermiers découragés par la pollution des nappes phréatiques, à des héritiers pressés de fuir l'aridité de ces immenses plaines. Face à ces enfants de pionniers, Bob va devoir jouer serré, tricher, amadouer cette Amérique profonde où la brutalité sauvage le dispute à la générosité. Dans un style imagé et puissant, Annie Proulx nous restitue une certaine Amérique menacée de disparition. 
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