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Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Fiction
Released: 07 November, 2005
ISBN: 9780007205585

Brokeback Mountain

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Synopsis

The inspiration behind 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain' is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales. 'Brokeback Mountain' is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands, glad to have found each other's company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for - an intimacy neither can forget. 'Brokeback Mountain' was made into an Academy Award-winning film by Ang Lee, and starred Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.

About the author

Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx published her first novel Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. The Shipping News won the Pulitzer, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, Accordian Crimes, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, Heart Songs (1994), Close Range (1999) and Bad Dirt (2004). Brokeback Mountain was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005.