{"product_id":"brokeback-mountain-now-a-major-motion-picture-reissue","title":"Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture (Reissue)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hardcover standalone edition of Annie Proulx's iconic story \"Brokeback Mountain,\" (first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand then in the collection \u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e)--the basis for the multi-award-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnnis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth 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 bond in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of \"Brokeback Mountain,\" and the story was included in \u003ci\u003ePrize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/i\u003e. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.","brand":"Annie Proulx","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46332258779372,"sku":"9781668212707","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781668212707.jpg?v=1743547690","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/brokeback-mountain-now-a-major-motion-picture-reissue","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}