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Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture Paperback – Deckle Edge, December 2, 2005
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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.
- Print length64 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherScribner
- Publication dateDecember 2, 2005
- Dimensions4.75 x 0.3 x 7.25 inches
- ISBN-100743271327
- ISBN-13978-0743271325
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-- 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
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- Publisher : Scribner; Media tie-in edition (December 2, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 64 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0743271327
- ISBN-13 : 978-0743271325
- Item Weight : 2.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.75 x 0.3 x 7.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #190,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,148 in TV, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction
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Annie Proulx's The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She is the author of two other novels: Postcards, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Accordion Crimes. She has also written two collections of short stories, Heart Songs and Other Stories and Close Range. In 2001, The Shipping News was made into a major motion picture. Annie Proulx lives in Wyoming and Newfoundland.
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It’s a good quick read, and worth the purchase in my opinion, just definitely pulls at your heart.
They deserved a happy ending, but that was not their story.
We all want to be loved. We all have the need to be held and feel like someone actually cares for us. And that's what we should look for and hold tight to it when we find it, even if it's going against what people think. They won't be the ones wiping your tears or holding you at night. Ennis and Jack are just the representation of many, MANY couples who have gone through the same and didn't have the happy ending. That's the stuff art of made of, whether it's a movie, a song, a painting...
Love inspires, but when you can't be with the one you want... That's a force that can change the world. I loved how the author portrayed this wonderful love story, the poetry in her words and the way she chose to tell it makes you stay until the end, refusing to let go and crying with the end.
And, by the way, that "I wish I knew how to quit you" is from here. Amazing film adaptation. And the audiobook read by Campbell Scott is fabulous.
Their attempts to understand the internal and external forces pushing them onto this bitter resolution has the full force of authenticity. One man is left with memories that time will never extinguish, hard truths to grapple with and the anguish of what might have been. A masterpiece take on the human condition.
Just as the stark words your eyes saw probably moved your heart, to HEAR this tale in the dark, on a winter night, has a power all its own. Actor Campbell Scott delivers a spare reading of Proulx's work that unwraps the muscle and sinew of her matchless choices and skills. My god, the writing, the deadly-true detail. If anything, the story read aloud seems even MORE layered,sexual and doomed than it did on the printed page. Scott gets the flat, barren ethos exactly right.
You should be aware this 2005 CD is drawn from the final hour of Simon & Shuster's 1999 unabridged Audioworks cassette release of Proulx's Close Range, Wyoming Stories which runs six hours. Out of print, it sometimes turns up on ebay. Brokeback, the last story in the book/audiocassette, runs one hour on this CD. Some will say that you need the 80% prelim of Close Range that is NOT Brokeback to tip you into the quite unexpected pay-off that is Ennis and Twist. I kind of agree: I was gobsmacked.
But at this price, the Audio CD re-release is an invaluable riff on Brokeback's original material. It is chilling.
For fans of Close Range, Annie Proulx, the Brokeback story or the movie, this CD is a must-have.
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Reviewed in Mexico on December 17, 2021
We see things from Ennis's point of view: his feelings and contradictions are fairly understandable - although the technique used to tell the story, with oppressive, obsessive, poetic description of atmosphere and detail, makes it hard at times to figure out what exactly is going on.
The sadistic detail, however, is explicit, which really puts the story into the 'tragic homosexual' category of books and films of the second half of the last century whose message was that non-conventional sexual relationships usually end in tragedy.
I suspect there’s a not-quite-explicit moral message in the fact that Jack, having waited in vain for Ennis to give up his conventional life and set up home together with him, decides instead to team up with another man, only to end up shortly afterwards the victim of brutal murder.
But the story is worth reading – bleak though it is. And its message of (semi-)positivity is, I suppose, that in spite of conservative society’s primitive backward instincts to crush what is different, hopes of true love can exist – although woe betide anyone who doesn’t have the courage of their true-love convictions, or worse, gives up on his reluctant lover to team up with someone else in desperation.
The story is set in a conservative time where Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist meet each other at a job where they were meant to look after cattle at Brokeback Mountain. As they spent more & more time together, they became intimate & even though they reassured each other that they weren’t ‘queer’ but both of them knew that this relationship wasn’t just a phase that would pass away. But as their work wasn’t a permanent one, they both decided to part ways. But will it be the end or will their love story continue to bloom, get the book to know,
Even though I’ve heard a lot about the movie adaption of this story, luckily I haven’t ever got the chance to watch the movie & now since I’ve already read the story I am very excited to watch it. It’s my first book by Annie Proulx & her writing style really intrigued me. The simplicity of depicting emotions is moving & keeps you involved with the characters. The ending blew me away. The language was a bit complicated, the title fits perfectly while the cover could’ve been different than just the movie poster.











