{"product_id":"that-old-ace-in-the-hole-9780743242486","title":"That Old Ace in the Hole","description":"From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBob 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 Caf , 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobust, often bawdy, strikingly original, \u003ci\u003eThat Old Ace in the Hole\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743242486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/07\/2003 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2004 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Annie Proulx","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36641382039708,"sku":"9780743242486","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e5333761-d192-403f-a364-ad11ed48a3f8.jpg?v=1603853494","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/that-old-ace-in-the-hole-9780743242486","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}