CLOSE RANGE

Brokeback Mountain and other stories

by E. ANNIE PROULX

New softcover book, 320 pages. Movie tie-in edition published by Harper Perennial in 2006

Brutal and striking, Pultizer Prize winner Annie Proulx brings us an outstanding collection of tales about the ranchers and country folk who struggle to survive in the harsh wildness of Wyoming.

Raw and gritty Proulx presents to us a variety of tales of the people that struggle to live their lives in the remote and often cruel environment of Wyoming, their stories and characters frequently as turbulent, unpredictable and untamed as the landscape itself.

Brokeback Mountain (now a major motion picture directed by Ang Lee and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) tells the tale of Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, two young men with no prospects, who live hard, lonely lives and have been shaped by their environment to be rough-mannered and tough natured. Signing up to Farm and Ranch employment they first meet and are glad to have one another's company where none had been expected. But soon their friendship becomes something else, something unexpected and not looked for, something far reaching and deadly...

About the Author

Annie Proulx published her first book in 1980 - Sweet and Hard Cider: Making It, Using It and Enjoying It.  Her first novel, Postcards, was published  in 1991 when she was 56. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novels, Accordion Crimes, and That Old Ace in the Hole. She has also published 3 volumes of short stories - Heartsongs and Other Stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories and Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2.