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Novelist Proulx's 'Ace in the Hole'

NPR
Published December 28, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Annie Proulx (The Shipping News) writes about strange people in lonely places. Her latest novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, explores the vanishing Texas panhandle. Proulx, 67, says it may be her last novel, though she'll keep writing short stories. Tom Vitale reports.

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