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.
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.
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