by E. Annie Proulx · Tropea · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788843804696
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«Quel vecchio asso nella manica» is the western novel by E. Annie Proulx, published by Tropea in paperback (379 pages, in Italian).
Bob Dollar, abandoned by his parents, seeks his place as a scout for Global Pork Rind, a pork company that sends him to an area between Oklahoma and Texas. He poses as a real estate agent in Woolybucket to buy land, but the stories of its inhabitants and old Ace Crouch change his course.
The original is «That Old Ace in the Hole»; Italian edition of 2004, translated by Delfina Vezzoli, in the Le gaggie collection.
For readers of literary fiction and westerns who enjoy portraits of rural America and characters with personality.
