Brokeback Mountain

· HarperCollins · Narrated by Campbell Scott
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The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger.

Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay – Adapted and the David Lean Award for Direction

Winner of four Golden Globe Awards 2005, including Best Screenplay, Best Motion Picture and Best Director

Winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture, 2005 Venice International Film Festival

Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly ...

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5.0
5 reviews
David Stevenson
April 13, 2020
A beautiful, heart wrenching and atmospheric short story that will touch the soul. highly recommended listen or read. Beautifully read on this audio.
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John Mills
February 20, 2018
I really liked it, though the story is sad, I'm glad it meshes with the film, and for me condenses down the film, I like both though.
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About the author

Annie Proulx is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novels Accordion Crimes and That Old Ace in the Hole, and the short story collections Close Range and Bad Dirt.

Larry McMurtry is also a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of more than thirty novels, including Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove, several collections of essays and many screenplays.

Diana Ossana has written two novels, more than a dozen screenplays and numerous essays.

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