Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx

Title: Brokeback Mountain Author: Annie Proulx Genre: Short story Rating: 5/10 # pages: 58 Date read: February, 2006

Summary: 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 because that's what cowboys do. 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.

Review: I've yet to see the movie, but after hearing so much about it, I wanted to read the short story it's based on. I must admit to not being terribly impressed though... perhaps it's just a matter of me not being too fond of short stories in general, but I was pretty much left cold by it... I'd probably only have given it a 4 if it wasn't for the fact that it's so short (58 small pages). However, reading it DID enable me to read madlori's fanfic "Human Interest" which is just amazing! Lori beats Annie Proulx hands down at writing any day. So it was worth it :-)

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