Brokeback Mountain

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Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

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The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger.

Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay – Adapted and the David Lean Award for Direction

Winner of four Golden Globe Awards 2005, including Best Screenplay, Best Motion Picture and Best Director

Winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture, 2005 Venice International Film Festival

Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly …

Fiction

Friendship

Genre Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Romance

Small Town & Rural

Short Story

Wyoming

Ranch

Critic Reviews

'Beautifully composed and wonderfully acted … a beautiful and moving story. Their story is not tragic, but heroic' Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

'Extremely moving and elegantly crafted … "Brokeback got us good," says Jack, and it'll get you good too' Jonathan Romney, Independent

'[An] elegiac and engrossing drama and a wonderful meditation on longing and regret … Brokeback Mountain may even be Lee's finest film to date' Empire

'A knockout' Observer

'Magnificent' Sunday Times

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At the mercy of their place in America, and their place in history, two characters we learn to feel deep attachment for eke out difficult lives, hiding a brilliant and consuming love for each other.
The best love story I have ever read.

A terrible, relentless love story

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Amazing story. I read it after I watched the movie, and was pleased to see that the movie follows the book closely. Harrowing in its own way, it tells the story of two lovers in a time their love was abhorred, and the dynamic of each as they face it in their own way. This was a story that has stuck with me long after I finished.

Amazing story

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I read this book after I saw the movie. The movie follows the book closely. Such a sad and tormented story of same sex love in the 1960s and beyond between these two men. So beautifully written by Proulx and narrated by Scott with sensitivity. Society mainly has come along way since the harrowing existence of Ennis and Jack. A somber yet beautiful read/listen.

Hauntingly beautiful tragic

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