Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx #54 ****

I was able to squeeze in one more read for 2005. A short story by Annie Proulx. This was a gift from my daughter Layla for X-mas. It is originally from a short story collection called Close Range.

I really loved this story! It reminded me a little of Cormac McCarthy's work (All The Pretty Horses).

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.

Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

On a side note regarding the movie. I was listening to the Jay Thomas show on Sirius radio and they have been discussing the movie. They actually interviewed the Mayor of Casper, Wyoming, Guy Padgett.