Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Publisher's 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.

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Critic reviews

"Proulx's understanding is at its most remarkable in the astonishing Brokeback Mountain. [She] knows what she could only know...by the infrared that allows a very few writers clear sight in the dark of the imagination." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Brokeback Mountain does some of the best things a story can do. It abolishes the old West cliches, excavates and honors a certain kind of elusive life, then nearly levels you with the emotional weight at its center." (The Boston Sunday Globe)

Good book

This short story was pretty much the same as the movie except that the movie had more details to make it movie worthy!!

Packs an emotional wallop

Better than the movie IMHO. Spare, beautiful prose, conveying so much emotion without a wasted word. And it goes without saying that the narrator, Campbell Scott, is wonderful.

Purple but Good

If you listen to this, don't bother to see the movie and vice versa. This has to be the best adapted work of the year -- that said, you're travelling familiar waters if you experience both works. The short story is great -- Campbell Scott does an EXCELLENT job as narrator. The prose gets a bit purple at times but it's probably "expected" as this is a classic romance.

Broke my heart

What a wonderfully written and narrated story. Actually enjoyed the images created by the book even bettr than the movie

Time well spent.

Such a sweet and sad story. A series as such would be amazing. Refreshing to hear a m4m story that doesn't border on porn.

A heartbreaking read

I've heard of this story and finally got around to reading it. What a great heartfelt read. I loved the way Proulx wrote the characters and their interactions with each other. I really enjoyed the dialogue between the two. I found myself sad for the most part. Proulx really creates an air of distress and longing within the pages of this short story. I just felt so bad for the characters and found myself in a depression after reading. The goal of every writer to make their reader feel something. Unfortunately this is not always accomplished and is very hard to convey in the story. Proulx achieves this with such skill. I needed a happy meal after reading this. It's a great read.

Excellent

I thoroughly enjoyed this heartbreaking story of forbidden love. Excellent writing and narration. Highly recommend this story.

Sad but heartfelt

Great short story, almost made me tear up. The author and narrator were able to capture the reader very quickly.

I didn't want to like it

I didn't want to like it however I got hooked. Once the author connected human emotions to the characters the reader can empathize with their story.

LOVE This Book!

Brokeback Mountain is one of my favorites, as short as it is I try to read it once a year. This book focuses on love & a time in the world when not every kind of love was accepted. It's a sad but beautiful story.