In a nutshell, two men find work on Brokeback Mountain and unknowingly start an affair that lasts a generation. Man, this story turned out to impact me more than I thought it would! In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world’s violent intolerance. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of “Brokeback Mountain,” and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. I’m gay, and though times have certainly changed, certain relationships of mine have died due to that fact, some of them with family members, some with friends I thought would support me to the end.īut before I blab too much about my life, let’s get right into things, yes? Blurb Some of the themes present I can really relate to as well. It had great reviews and a story I was familiar with. I always liked the movie Brokeback Mountain, and in my quest to broaden my horizons in reads, I gave this short story a chance.
I’d made plans to read this short story before now, but as fate would have it, I didn’t get to it until now. This evening short story review comes after a long day of mourning for a dear friend of mine that I’ve recently lost.
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