Brokeback Mountain

short story by Proulx

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discussed in biography

  • Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
    In Annie Proulx

    It includes “Brokeback Mountain,” the story of two ranch hands, Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, whose friendship becomes a sexual relationship during a summer spent tending sheep in the 1960s. Afterward they pursue the traditional heterosexual lives expected of them but experience a lifetime of longing…

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film adaptation

  • Brokeback Mountain
    In Brokeback Mountain: Plot

    …Mountain is based on a short story of the same name by Annie Proulx that was published in The New Yorker on October 6, 1997. The movie is largely faithful to the short story’s plot: cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are hired by foreman…

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