It is an unsentimental look at the ranchers, bull riders, cowboys, women and small-town business people who survive in this tough place.
In gorgeous and haunting prose Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. Her latest collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories presents eleven unforgettable stories of isolation, violence, and redemption in the high plains country of Wyoming. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in the New Yorker - it won the National Magazine Award and was included in the O. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. Both men work hard, marry, have kids because that's what cowboys do. Close Range Brokeback Mountain The inspiration behind Life of Pi director Ang Lees Brokeback Mountain is one of the short stories to be found in this. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheep herder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. WINNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN LION AWARD Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Before being added in Proulx’s collection of short stories Close Range, Wyoming Stories, which won New Yorker ’s Book. Print Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories While Proulx is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for her novel The Shipping News her mainstream recognition resulted from the multiple Academy Award winning movie adaptation of Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee.
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