Film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands -- ''drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, tough spoken'' -- glad to have found each other''s company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for, something deadly.
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Annie Proulx (Connecticut, 1935) irrumpió en el mundo literario en la cincuentena, pero lo hizo brillantemente. Su segunda novela, Atando cabos, fue llevada al cine, mereció el Pulitzer 1993 y el National Book Award, y cosechó un rotundo éxito de lectores. Le siguieron un volumen de cuentos, Canciones del corazón (1988), y dos novelas, Los crímenes del acordeón (1996) y Un as en la manga (2002). El relato Brokeback Mountain, convertido en película, volvió a llevarla a la actualidad.