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Originally published in THE NEW YORKER and then as part of the collection CLOSE RANGE, Annie Proulx's short story packs a punch. Cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar find love or something like it watching over a herd of sheep one summer on Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain. Their lives diverge and intersect again and again as they simultaneously resist and are drawn into a doomed, impossible romance. Campbell Scott's clear reading puts Proulx's beautiful and harsh language front and center. The story is mostly straight narration, but there are a few chances for dialogue, and Scott gives the various characters subtle Western shading, with a gentle drawl for Jack and a gravelly growl for Ennis. It's a timeless story that stands up to repeated listening and will stay with listeners long after they've finished the hour-long CD. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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"Proulx's understanding is at its most remarkable in the astonishing 'Brokeback Mountain.' [She] knows what she could only know...by the infrared that allows a very few writers clear sight in the dark of the imagination."
-- Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review
"'Brokeback Mountain' does some of the best things a story can do. It abolishes the old West clichés, excavates and honors a certain kind of elusive life, then nearly levels you with the emotional weight at its center."
-- Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe
"A stand-out story...'Brokeback Mountain' is the sad chronology of a love affair between two men who can't afford to call it that. They know what they're not -- not queer, not gay -- but have no idea what they are."
-- Walter Kirn, New York
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5.0 out of 5 stars
As Beautiful as it Gets,
This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture (Paperback)
Brokeback Mountain is a beautiful love story. I never thought I'd think that of a story about an untraditional relationship. But there it is. It touched me. It touched my wife. It is about emotion and beauty and pain of love. In many ways it takes the relationship of bonding in the tortured My Fractured Life or the classic Cat On a Hot Tin Roof into the open. One heck of a beautiful and amazing journey.
4.0 out of 5 stars
PR gimmick, but still interesting.,
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This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture (Paperback)
"Brokeback Mountain" was originally a short story that was part of "Close Range: Wyoming Stories." I highly recommend this book, you get a book chock full of Ms. Proulx's wonderful writing. This "Story to screen Play" is an interesting gimmick, and is probably of more interest to screen writers and and movie buffs as you do get good insight into how the screen writers took this short story and put it into a form that would work as a feature film. It was particularly interesting to see how the screen writers fleshed out the roles of the women for the screen play, development that was lacking in the short story (and not needed in that format). The only down side of this format is readers are only getting a small portion of Proulx's work, that is why I would rather see them ordering "Close Range." If you are looking for more Great western fiction check out "Across the High Lonesome" it has received high praise from Larry McMurtry!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Beauty of Treasure and Torture,
By Claire Simpson (Silver Cross) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture (Paperback)
Forget any sexuality of the relationship, "Brokeback Mountain" is a story about love. It's that same aura of pure love yet tortured love that plagued "My Fractured Life." It hurt and inspired at the same time. "Brokeback Mountain" is glorious and a book meant to be read by the masses, yet accepted by the few.
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