BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN [Signed]

Proulx, Annie

ISBN 10: 0743271327 / ISBN 13: 9780743271325

Published by Scribner, New York, NY, 2005

About this Item

Octavo, 55 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Nature images on spine with white and light blue lettering. Covers have bending wear along the fore corners, a small chip along the spine head joint corner, and mild shelving wear. Textblock has creasing along the head corner of page 15, mild bending along the tail fore corners, and mild foxing along the front end-page, head and fore edges. Signed flat by Annie Proulx on the title page. Shelved in Room C. This book is the first film tie-in edition. 1392863. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1392863

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN [Signed]
• Publisher: Scribner, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743271327
• ISBN 13: 9780743271325
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Paperback Edition, First Printing.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, “Brokeback Mountain” is her masterpiece.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.

Both men work hard, marry and have kids. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important bond in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of “Brokeback Mountain,” and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world’s intolerance.

About the Author

Annie Proulx is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Shipping News and Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Fen, Bog, and Swamp is her second work of nonfiction. She lives in New Hampshire.