Brokeback MountainHardcover, 55 pagesPublished November 1st 2005 by Scribner Book Company (first published 1997)ISBN 0743275306 (ISBN13: 9780743275309)Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain is a solid, well written short story of 2 gay cowboys meeting for the first time herding sheep together one sum...
Rating: 3.5 starsCastiel is an ex-soldier with augmented arms and lungs. He served The Company during a war that has left him alone in many sense of the word, and now spends his time at The Oasis, working to pay back the money owed for his augmentations. While there, Castiel meets Dean Winchester, a...
After watching the film to see what all the hype was about, I felt there was a lack of connection between the characters. I've had this problem with other book-based films (the book provides more of a character's mind than what a movie can), so I thought to give the book a try. No such luck. I did n...
These stories are realistic, gritty, beautiful, and amazing. Having grown up in Colorado, I was familiar with the setting of this book, but I've never seen it described this well. Annie Proulx has a gift for using language precisely. I can see why she has won so many literary prizes.All of these st...
Annie Proulx writes so sharply that she defines her characters with what feels like a razor's edge. This isn't a collection of happy stories about a West that never existed; it's a collection of taut essays about a hardscrabble life. Excellent writing, if not always the easiest stuff to read.
A novel set largely in the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle, this is another winner from Proulx. Despite what feels like a slightly rushed "Hollywood" ending, this is classic stuff; sharply etched characters set in relief against a wide-open, largely inhospitable landscape.So many of Proulx's characters st...
Proulx is the author of the short story "Brokeback Mountain" which was made into the film of the same name. I read that short story soon after seeing the movie and remember finding it moving. But Proulx might be one of those authors whose extreme styles are more effective (at least for me) at the sh...
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