Close Range
Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Published:7th Nov '05
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The book behind Ang Lee's Oscar-winning film, Brokeback Mountain, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025.
‘These are tales we can almost feel in our bones’ SUNDAY TIMES
A collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News.
Originally published in The New Yorker in 1997, Proux's short story, 'Brokeback Mountain' is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in an unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands, glad to have found each other’s company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for – an intimacy neither can forget.
In 2005, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ was made into an Academy Award-winning film by Ang Lee, and starred Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.
‘Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms’ The Wall Street Journal
‘A stunning collection of eleven tales about the hard lives of the ranchers, cowpokes and country wives who struggle to survive in an unforgiving environment. Written in a wonderfully flexible style that can be both spare and extravagant, her book has been hailed by American critics as a masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph
‘Like a mystic seeing the transfigured universe, she recreates the beauty of ordinary things’ Independent on Sunday
‘The detail is meticulous, the prose poetic and Proulx's fiction teems with life. Above all, her stories engage the heart. Magical’ Tatler
‘Proulx's style, compressed, elastic, hard-hitting, is inimitable: close to poetry but never self-indulgent. This is writing to be savoured’ Sunday Telegraph
‘These are tales we can almost feel in our bones’ Sunday Times
‘Individually, these 11 tales have a tautness and an urgency that are never less than exhilarating. Collectively, they encapsulate an entire, unremittingly bleak world. To find the pulse of humanity in such desperate lives betokens a writer of genius’ Saturday Telegraph
ISBN: 9780007205585
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 230g
320 pages
Film tie-in edition