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Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx

Start date: April 1, 2023

Finish date: April 30, 2023

Discussion: Short Story/Novella Collection

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Sep 01, 2020 Anne rated it really liked it

Shelves: novellas-and-short-stories, 2020, audio

"if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."

This is a tragic short story about the forbidden love between 2 Wyoming cowboys, Ennis and Jack. They meet one summer as young men working on a sheep farm in Wyoming, Brokeback Mountain. Thus starts a forbidden love story that spans 20 years. Proulx spare prose gives the reader brief glimpses into the lives of these men over the years as they try to create conventional lives while they still ache for each other. Ennis is stronger than the other and ...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Kathleen rated it liked it

I loved the movie by Ang Lee but the book (novella?), which I read after seeing the movie, had a cold feeling to it. I found the film to be much more moving. Add: I am going to read the book again in the near future, with a fresh eye.

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