{"product_id":"brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx-9780743271325","title":"Brokeback Mountain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA standalone edition of Annie Proulx's beloved story \u003cem\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e (in the collection \u003cem\u003eClose Range\u003c\/em\u003e)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, \u003cem\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth men work hard, marry and have kids. Yet over the course of many years and frequent separations, this relationship becomes the most important bond in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of \u003cem\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, and the story was included in \u003cem\u003ePrize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's intolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642800881900,"sku":"9780743271325","price":39.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780743271325-brokeback-mountain.jpg?v=1779158426","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx-9780743271325","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}