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Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx · 1997

Literary Fiction · ranked #137 in category

Two young Wyoming ranch hands — Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist — herd sheep one summer on Brokeback Mountain and begin a sexual and emotional relationship that neither can acknowledge or abandon, meeting intermittently across two decades in a world that gives them no space for what they are to each other. Proulx's short story is one of the most celebrated pieces of American fiction of the late 20th century.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1997 · 1990s
Author
Annie Proulx
Standing
Essential Read

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