Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture

by Annie Proulx

This new novel is set in the beautiful wild landscape of Wyoming among cowboys. It recounts the relationship over twenty years of two ranch hands, drop-out country boys with no prospects, rough-mannered and tough-spoken, glad to have found each other's company.

• ISBN10: 0743271327
• ISBN13: 9780743271325
• Publish Date: 2 December 2005 (first published 1 October 1998)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 64
• Language: English

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

This is one of the rare occasions where the movie was better than the book. The problem I feel was that there is so much to this story and a novella just couldn't contain it all satisfactorily. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist's relationship was well-defined and while it mostly felt like a booty call to me I do think they genuinely cared for one another.

Even though Ennis and Jack felt like they were doing it on the sly, I liked that Ennis's wife put two and two together showing for the first time that they were not invincible and in their world, had a dirty little secret. Brokeback Mountain conveyed that everyone deserves to be loved no matter who the person and for that I appreciated Annie Proulx's novella.

[Eve1972]

Loved both this and the movie...