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.
In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous
affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's
violent intolerance.
Brokeback Mountain is a short gay romantic story written by
Annie Proulx & the book has been published by Scribner Book Company. The
story was originally published by The New Yorker which 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. The author is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The
Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book
Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was
adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion
picture released in 2005. Brokeback Mountain received massive critical acclaim
and went on to be nominated for a leading eight Academy Awards, winning three
of them.
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 here 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. Every single reader should try it out sometime.
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