Close Range: Wyoming Stories (incl. Brokeback Mountain)
Annie Proulx, 1999
Simon & Schuster
288 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780684852225
Summary
Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx is one of the literary greats of her generation. Bestselling novels like The Shipping News and Postcards have been unmatched successes with critics and readers alike.
Her latest is Close Range , a collection of award-winning tales of the Western frontier, of desolate expanses of land and the vast spaces between people, of love and loss set against the endless sky.
Like The Shipping News, it's sure to make an indelible impression on each of millions of readers. Includes the award-winning stories "The Half-Skinned Steer" and "Brokeback Mountain." (From the publisher.)
"Brokeback Mountain" from this story collection, was adapted to film in 2005, starring jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. The film won 3 Academy Awards (director, adapted screenplay, and musical score).