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Pulitzer Award and National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Opening is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar has gone out of college but aimless, when he requires a job with Global Pork Rind - his activity to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the organization and changed into hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all types of seismic shifts in panhandle country. They are tough women and men who observed first-hand tornadoes, dust particles storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's give food to plenty, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for $50 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 retain their land, even though their children want no part than it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and personal, That Old Ace in the Opening tracks the great waves of change which have designed the American scenery and character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has generated one of the most irresistible heroes in contemporary fiction.
