Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx 1997

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
love loss grief injustice

Our Take

Two cowboys spend a summer herding sheep on a Wyoming mountain and fall in love with a ferocity neither can accommodate in their actual lives. Proulx writes the rest of those lives in cold, precise strokes. Ennis and Jack do not fail each other through weakness. They fail each other through the world.

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