"Brokeback Mountain" is a short work of fiction by Annie Proulx. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist begin a long, intense love affair when they meet on Brokeback Mountain in 1963 as young men hired to manage a flock of sheep. Over the course of 20 years, Ennis and Jack continue to have discreet liaisons separate from their personal lives of wives, jobs, and children. "Brokeback Mountain" is a tragic love story exploring themes of love, repression, and regret.
E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News.While she was certainly not an overnight sensatio...
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