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Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx
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 …

©1999 Annie Proulx (P)1999 Simon and Schuster Inc. This edition published 2006 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, UK Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Story Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"A timeless story that stands up to repeated listening and will stay with listeners long after they've finished the hour-long [audio]." ( AudioFile)
"Proulx's understanding is at its most remarkable in the astonishing Brokeback Mountain. [She] knows what she could only know...by the infrared that allows a very few writers clear sight in the dark of the imagination." ( New York Times Book Review)
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I belong to a book club and this was the latest nominated book for us to read. I had of course heard of the film and vaguely knew the storyline. I liked the voice of the narrator which is always a good start with an audio book. How refreshing to listen to a what is basically a love story but yet so different , not simply because it is of two men but because of the lifestyle, era and society that they lived in. A thoroughly good read and very touchingly intense.

Surprising different, and touching

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Superb narration with character voices that resemble the film actors. A really touching story that stays with you.

Superb telling of a touching story

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Wonderful, moving, beautifully narrated. The author's skill with words remains unsurpassed. A story I'll listen to again.

perfect

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A really good listen.

Excellent!

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For me, this is a great spoken-word adaptation of a provocative but human novel. Proulx’s prose works SOO well with Campbell Scott’s true and sensitive reading. It’s a perfect marrying of word into aural.

A heartbreaking tragedy, beautifully read.

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A short tale that takes you right back and right across to the desolate ranges of Jack and Ennis’s lives. Worth every penny.

Beautiful story. Beautiful writing.

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This is a superb short story about love and loss. Not romantic but authentic and effective.

Narration was spot on for this book.

Great short listen

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This is not a bad story and once out of it's first third it settles into nice pacing and character development, but the gear change from hanging out on the mountain to the sex scene in the tent is too abrupt. It would be a big risk for both men and it's always rung a little flat and hollow.

Rushes it's set-up

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Still has the power to make me cry after all these years.

I first read Close Range almost 15 years ago and, whilst all of the stories contained are marvellous, the clear and just standout is Brokeback Mountain.

Looking for a quick read on a restless night, I returned to the standalone Brokeback Mountain and was once again absorbed by it, after feeling the years may have somewhat dimmed its power.

A truly heartbreaking story that is so beautifully written and one which does, even after all those years of knowing the plot so well, still have the power to make me cry.

Still has the power to make me cry after all these years

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Not a long audiobook but it's very enjoyable. Great story and very well read. Well worth a listen.

Very good.

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