Annie Proulx — That Old Ace In The Hole
Fourth Estate 2003 Paperback, 384pp. A richly textured story of one man\'s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, the newly-hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, intends to do his job. He is also determined not to turn out like his parents who left him on his Uncle Tam\'s doorstep as a child. And he is afflicted by the tendency to believe his own daydreams - to the point of forgetting that he made them up in the first place. (ISBN: 9780007161829). Good.