- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; Original edition (Dec 27 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743294165
- ISBN-13: 978-0743294164
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 16.3 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #250,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
About the Author
Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range Wyoming
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Diana Ossana has written two novels, more than a dozen screenplays and numerous essays.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Diana Ossana has written two novels, more than a dozen screenplays and numerous essays.
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ENNIS DEL MAR WAKES BEFORE FIVE, WIND ROCKING THE TRAILER, HISSing in around the aluminum door and window frames. Read the first page
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This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (Paperback)
I highly recommend any of Annie Proulx's work. "Brokeback" is a short story not a novel, that has been expanded into a a full length feature film. The original Story appeared in the New Yorker in the Late 1990's and I remember being very touched by it back then. It was also interesting to read the McMurtry/Ossana screen play in which the roles of the women were enlarged--even created from scratch. There is a darkness to this story that troubled me, the underlying violent tensions. This is a raw story of true emotions. The actual movie bothered me because of the good looking actors portraying the main characters is not true to the story. I also do not care for all the "straight" hype concerning this flick. It has become a badge of honor for straight men to go see this movie and prove how enlightened they are, while other men immediately demean it because of the subject matter. I don't think most straight men are ever going to be comfortable watching a gay cowboy movie with explicit sex, its just not in their DNA. It doesn't make them bad its just the way they are (just like the characters Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar can't help the way they are).I also enjoyed the writers essays on bringing this story to the big screen. The book also includes Black and white photos from the movie--which again take away from the story for me as the actors do not look like the characters described in the book. The book concludes with the movies credits which is probably of interest to movie buffs, but meant nothing to me. In conclusion if you're a big fan of the movie youll probably love this book. If you want the real deal I recommend Proulx's, "Close Range : Wyoming Stories" the compilation of short stories that includes "BrokeBack". The one fear I have about the success of Brokeback is that the author will forever be classified as the Gay cowboy author which would be a shame!
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST GAY MOVIE ON EARTH,
By David E "David" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (Paperback)
And of course played by straight people. While the story could have drain the movie to a flop, because there's not much happening, the way it was done, the acting, the music, etc, just made it happen. Excellent.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A mountaintop experience,
By FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (Paperback)
I recall a short story version of Brokeback Mountain many years ago in a major periodical (alas, I can't recall the periodical). I had an idea that it would, in the fullness of time, become a major motion picture, and that it has. It is an award-winning film already, and looks set for some sort of Oscar recognition. However, in the hype surrounding the film, those interested would be wise to look at the book. There is much more depth here than in the film, much more about the interior workings of the main characters and what they must endure. This is ultimately not a love story, as the marketing has been spinning the film, but rather an expose on the dangers and drawbacks of living in the closet. For the purposes of this story, Annie Proulx has juxtaposed two diametrically opposite cultures in the American psyche - the gay culture and the cowboy culture (although history is, as it often is, in fact rather different from what the Hollywood-created current remembrance of it is). One comes to wonder at the resistance that all characters seem to have for breaking free of their bonds; ultimately, none of the relationships are satisfying, and there is an emotional desolation as wide and spare as brush land and prairies of the American West. The lead characters meet while working for the summer as wranglers and watchers over herds. They form a bond that renews at regular intervals during their lives, lives that go on to other, more traditional and socially acceptable settings. Each gets married, each has children, each embarks (in one way or another) in a working life that would seem to preclude the other, but yet the tie that binds them draws them together again on a regular basis. The closet theme is heightened in the lead characters, but in fact serves as a metaphor for readers who might not fit in that particular closet - we all have skeletons in our closets, it seems, and in fact, we all have our own closets in which we hide and live out part of our lives. Annie Proulx is an excellent writer, and even though I find it occasionally difficult to relate to her main characters (being involved in worlds several removes away from mine), I can still understand the themes of longing, despair, disappointment, and yes, love, too.
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