| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780743271325 | | Publisher: Scribner Book Company | | Publish Date: 11/15/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 39744969 | | Item#: BYWPM3 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.25H x 5.25L x 0.25T | | Pages: 64 |
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Annie Proulx's breathtaking story Brokeback Mountain has now been adapted to film by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. This handsome edition of the story, originally published in the collection Close Range, will coincide with the release of the film in 2005. The release of the film of The Shipping News brought hundreds of thousands of new readers to that novel. Brokeback Mountain is the story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys who share a small cabin while working as herders and camp tenders during a summer spent on a range far above the tree line. They fall into a relationship that at first seems solely sexual-but then reveals itself to be something more. Both men marry and have families, but over the course of many years and frequent separations they find their relation- ship becomes the most important thing in both their lives, and they do anything they can to maintain it. Proulx's description of their bond is beautiful and haunting-and often brutal in its portrayal of the hardships, and ultimately the violence, they face. Perfect for both moviegoers and Proulx's already well-established legions of readers, this volume is a handsome and timely edition of one of the most talked-about stories of recent years.
About the Author:
ANNIE PROULX is the acclaimed author of The Shipping News, That Old Ace in the Hole, Accordion Crimes, Close Range, and Bad Dirt. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. She lives in Wyoming.
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Two young men, working as camp tender and herder for a herd of sheep pastured up on Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming in 1963, fall naturally and easily into a sexual relationship, developing a passion that they dare not show once they're off the mountain. As time passes, both marry and raise families--but take yearly "fishing trips" together that keep their love alive. This novella, from Annie Proulx's 1999 short story collection, CLOSE RANGE, was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 2005 starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
| Author Bio| Annie Proulx | | Born in Connecticut, Annie Proulx grew up in a family of sisters in various parts of New England and in North Carolina. Her mother was a painter. Proulx loved the outdoors, including canoeing and fishing, and wrote for outdoor-life magazines as a journalist for 20 years before she became a fiction writer. She studied history, first at the University of Vermont (B.A., 1969), then at George Williams University in Montreal (M.A., 1973). She has lived in Vermont and, more recently, Wyoming. She has been married and divorced three times and has three sons. Proulx, who began writing (bored by a childhood illness) at the age of 10, published her first novel, POSTCARDS, in 1992; it won a PEN/Faulkner award. THE SHIPPING NEWS won the National Book Award and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |
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