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Product Details
Scribner, November 2005
Trade Paperback, 64 pages
ISBN-10: 0743271327
ISBN-13: 9780743271325
Description
WINNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN LION AWARD
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheep herder 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, 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.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in the New Yorker -- it won the National Magazine Award and was included in the O. Henry Stories 1998. In gorgeous and haunting prose Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
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"Proulx's understanding is at its most remarkable in the astonishing 'Brokeback Mountain.' [She] knows what she could only know...by the infrared that allows a very few writers clear sight in the dark of the imagination."
-- Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review
"'Brokeback Mountain' does some of the best things a story can do. It abolishes the old West clichés, excavates and honors a certain kind of elusive life, then nearly levels you with the emotional weight at its center."
-- Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe
"A stand-out story...'Brokeback Mountain' is the sad chronology of a love affair between two men who can't afford to call it that. They know what they're not -- not queer, not gay -- but have no idea what they are."
-- Walter Kirn, New York
CBS Detroit, October 12, 2011
...often bandied about that short stories are the better source material for screenplays and play scripts. For instance, Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” ran about 11 pages when originally published in “The New Yorker.” In ...
Forbes.com, May 3, 2010
...agents and publishers hope that the short story writer will also produce that blockbuster novel. And it happens. Annie Proulx, author of the short story Brokeback Mountain which originally appeared in the collection Close Range: Wyoming ...
Examiner.com, April 8, 2010
...I drew a similarity to Michael Chabon earlier, and you can see this type of character in E. Annie Proulx's story "Brokeback Mountain"). Shepherd's sexuality has very little to do with the tragedy stacked against him, however. While I ...
Gulf News, December 30, 2009
...on the ground and in the air, with a cast of largely unknown actors playing the passengers. 2. Brokeback Mountain (2006) Based on a 30-page novella by Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain was the victim of probably the greatest travesty in ...
NPR, December 23, 2009
...Dove and Terms of Endearment, most notably — were made into movies or television series. McMurtry adapted E. Annie Proulx's story 'Brokeback Mountain' for the screen, and won an Academy Award for his work. According to his publisher, ...
McGill University, December 3, 2009
...Big Screen event and explore how a literary work is adapted to the cinema. Enjoy a screening of Brokeback Mountain, based on the short story of the same name by Annie Proulx. The story first appeared in the New Yorker in 1997 and an expanded ...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 21, 2009
...3. Short stories and novellas tend to fit better as films than full-length novels. The film version of Annie Proulx' masterpiece "The Shipping News" is almost totally forgotten, while the short story that became "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) ...
El Paso Times, November 8, 2009
...February. Proulx donates her papers to NY library NEW YORK -- A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' ...
Norwich Bulletin, October 14, 2009
...For The Norwich Bulletin Although she didn’t live in Eastern Connecticut for long, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx was born at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich on Aug. 22, 1935, the oldest of five girls of French ...
Seattle Weekly, October 7, 2009
...Dico: not too depressed. Books: No Comfort Seattle Arts & Lectures begins its fall series with Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize winner whose The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain were both adapted to film. (The latter, you'll recall, was ...
Seattle Weekly, September 16, 2009
...The Year of the Flood, set after an environmental catastrophe. (See: Gore, Al.) Town Hall, townhallseattle.org. 7 Annie Proulx Known for The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, among others. Benaroya Hall, lectures.org. 8 Richard Dawkins ...
New West, August 26, 2009
...Kent Haruf (Rick Bass and Laura Pritchett agreed with me on this one.) Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx (Nobody else mentioned Proulx.) Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane (And Im the only one to pick McGuane.) What books do you ...
Guardian Unlimited, July 8, 2009
...The novelist finds some startlingly fresh stories ? from Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Annie Proulx and others ? in the old west Missy is the first novel from playwright Chris Hannan, whose work has been produced by the RSC and the National ...
Examiner.com, June 10, 2009
...which characterized the Cold War (at least in my mind). Buy it here. Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx The short stories in this book are among the best written this century. ?Brokeback Mountain? is heartbreak, an excruciating ...
The Age, April 14, 2009
...included Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the autobiography of US comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain had also disappeared, along withThe Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. Meanwhile, titles ...
Examiner.com, April 13, 2009
...says both fiction and nonfiction books have been affected, including the classics James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story, Vito Russo's Celluloid Closet, Randy Shilts' The Mayor of ...
Examiner.com, April 13, 2009
...says both fiction and nonfiction books have been affected, including the classics James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story, Vito Russo's Celluloid Closet, Randy Shilts' The Mayor of ...
Suite101.com, April 3, 2009
...Gay Cowboy Love Story that Subverted Genres and Defied Stereotypes © Steve Williams Reviewed here, the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, the gay cowboy love story set in Wyoming that bar-room brawled its way into mainstream ...
Annie Proulx's Books
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Bird CloudPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.Read More
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The Shipping NewsWhen Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland...Read More
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That Old Ace in the HoleFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes That Old Ace in the Hole, an exhilarating story brimming with language, history,...Read More -
Accordion CrimesE. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in...Read More
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to ScreenplayAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers,...Read More
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Fine Just the Way It IsThe dazzling and acclaimed final installment of the Wyoming Stories from National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx.Read More
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Close RangeAnnie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong...Read More
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Heart Songs and Other StoriesBefore she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in...Read More
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