![]() 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. In gorgeous and haunting prose Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent 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. 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.īrokeback Mountain was originally published in the New Yorker - it won the National Magazine Award and was included in the O. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.īoth men work hard, marry, have kids because that's what cowboys do. WINNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN LION AWARDĪnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.Įnnis 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. ![]()
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