Overview
A hardcover standalone edition of Annie Proulx's iconic story ';Brokeback Mountain,' (first published in The New Yorker and then in the collection Close Range)the basis for the multi-award-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important bond 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 intolerance. A hardcover standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s iconic story “Brokeback Mountain,” (first published in The New Yorker and then in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the multi-award-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important bond 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 intolerance.
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. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important bond 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 intolerance. A hardcover standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s iconic story “Brokeback Mountain,” (first published in The New Yorker and then in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the multi-award-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important bond 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 intolerance.
- | Author: Annie Proulx
- | Publisher: Scribner
- | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2025
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781668212707
- | ISBN-10: 1668212706
