Brokeback Mountain (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
A stand alone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, “Brokeback Mountain” is her masterpiece.
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that’s what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of “Brokeback Mountain,” and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world’s violent intolerance.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant, Even Better than the Movie
The movie definitely embellishes the parts between them out on the mountain and when Jack dies. It was really good, though. I see why people were interested in turning it into a movie. Just like the movie, this is literary art. It’s sparse and clipped, much like Ennis and Jack themselves. It actually feels a bit like the movie, a lot happens, but not a lot is said (dialogue wise), but the message is clear. Highly recommend.
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These are some of the dumbest reviews I’ve seen in my life, is this really what people in the 2000s thought was funny?