London: Fourth Estate Limited, 1998. Signed by the author on bookplate laid into the book. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Fine. A paperbound original. First book publication of the story (one year before the collection Close Range), that was adapted for the 2005 Ang Lee film, starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhall, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams. Brokeback Mountain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was honored with Best Picture and Best Director accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild of America, Critics Choice Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards. Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The film was widely considered to be a front runner for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to Crash.

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Annie 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. 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. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.

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Bookseller: Orpheus Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18608
Title: Brokeback Mountain.
Author: PROULX, Annie
Format/Binding: Illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition / First printing.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1857029402
ISBN 13: 9781857029406
Publisher: Fourth Estate Limited,
Place of Publication: London:
Date Published: 1998.
Pages: 58 pages.
Bookseller catalogs: Cinema; Fiction; Western Americana;

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