Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx · 1997

Brokeback Mountain is a standalone edition of Annie Proulx's acclaimed short story, originally published in The New Yorker and later collected in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The narrative follows Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands who forge a deep, secret bond while working as sheepherder and camp tender on a remote mountain range. Their love, constrained by the homophobic climate of mid‑20th‑century America, endures through marriage, children, and years of separation, becoming the central emotional core of the tale. The story inspired the award‑winning film directed by Ang Lee, cementing its status as a modern classic of literary and LGBTQ+ fiction.