Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx HC

Some stories settle into you like sea fog rolling over the cove. This is one of them.

This is a beautiful hardcover standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s iconic Brokeback Mountain—first published in The New Yorker, later gathered into her celebrated collection Close Range, and the basis for the multi-award-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

For many readers and reviewers, this is Proulx’s masterpiece.

It begins one summer on a range above the tree line. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two young ranch hands, share an isolated tent and the kind of casual closeness that comes with hard work and high country. But something deeper takes hold that summer—something neither of them is prepared to name or let go.

Both men marry. Both have children. And across many years and frequent separations, this bond becomes the most important thing in either of their lives, surviving everything but the world’s intolerance.

The accolades speak for themselves. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication, and the story earned a place in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards.

In prose that’s spare, haunting, and utterly gorgeous, Proulx says more in these few pages than most novels manage in hundreds. It’s the rare short story you’ll want to read in one sitting—and then sit with long after.

Slim enough to slip in your bag for a walk along the Marginal Way. Powerful enough to stay with you for years.

Come linger a while. We’d love to put this one in your hands.

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