That Old Ace in the Hole

That Old Ace in the Hole
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781416588924
ISBN-13 : 1416588922
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis That Old Ace in the Hole by : Annie Proulx

Download or read book That Old Ace in the Hole written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob 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 Café, 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. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole 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.

RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND THE SPLENDOUR OF FLEMISH PAINTING.

RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND THE SPLENDOUR OF FLEMISH PAINTING.
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 6155987130
ISBN-13 : 9786155987137
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND THE SPLENDOUR OF FLEMISH PAINTING. by : JULIA. TATRAI

Download or read book RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND THE SPLENDOUR OF FLEMISH PAINTING. written by JULIA. TATRAI and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Heart Songs and Other Stories
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781416588900
ISBN-13 : 1416588906
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Heart Songs and Other Stories by : Annie Proulx

Download or read book Heart Songs and Other Stories written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small town life. The country is blue collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.

Bad Dirt

Bad Dirt
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780743273480
ISBN-13 : 0743273486
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bad Dirt by : Annie Proulx

Download or read book Bad Dirt written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Range. Annie Proulx’s new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Born to ranching, drawn to it, or desperate to get out, they inhabit worlds that are isolated and often dangerous. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they drive themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. No one writes better than Proulx about the American west and about lives that may no longer be viable. This is a stunning collection by one of the most vivid and exhilarating writers of our time.

Roman Baroque Sculpture

Roman Baroque Sculpture
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 0300053665
ISBN-13 : 9780300053661
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Roman Baroque Sculpture by : Jennifer Montagu

Download or read book Roman Baroque Sculpture written by Jennifer Montagu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to enable the reader to appreciate, understand and evaluate the sculptural monuments of the Roman Baroque.

Great Grapes

Great Grapes
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Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9781603424097
ISBN-13 : 1603424091
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Great Grapes by : Annie Proulx

Download or read book Great Grapes written by Annie Proulx and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1982-01-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill. In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to grow superb grapes, including how to: -Choose the most suitable cultivars for your area -Choose the right site -Prepare the soil -Build trellises -Plant and train the vines -Prune for maximum yield -Propagate new vines -Control pests -Harvest the grapes at the peak of ripeness

The Gourmet Gardener

The Gourmet Gardener
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0449902277
ISBN-13 : 9780449902271
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Gourmet Gardener by : Annie Proulx

Download or read book The Gourmet Gardener written by Annie Proulx and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: