Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture
by Annie Proulx
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Author: Annie ProulxEdition: Paperback
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0743271327
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: A+
Summary: 5 Stars
The raw emotion of this short story dares to punch you in the stomach; the tear ducts start to sting, but inevitably, do not yield, because the bitter bite of the narrative does not fall to melodrama. To feel the devastating triumph of a love ended too early is to experience the very essence of what literature exists for. Proulx's sweeping, sometimes complex images encompass an entire world into a few short words; the briefness of the story parallels how the characters feel there is never enough time. As always, Proulx betrays her extensive knowledge of the written word as a motif. The colloquially written dialogue is blunt and entirely convincing; not an ounce of it seems forced or unrealistic. To read Brokeback Mountain is to have your nerves catch on fire and belief restored in the power of the written word.
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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.
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