Annie Proulx's celebrated story is published here alongside the award-winning screenplay of Brokeback Mountain by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Also included are three essays by the authors and film stills which capture the haunting sweep of Ang Lee's epic major motion picture. / Brokeback Mountain is now a major motion picture, directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal / Relaesed in the UK in early January 2006, the film is fast becoming a classic, with outstanding reviews from the film critics / Winner of four Golden Globes as well as the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Brokeback Mountain is a popular frontrunner for this year's Oscars / The DVD is provisionally scheduled for release in the UK in April 2006
Annie Proulx is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novels Accordion Crimes and That Old Ace in the Hole, and the short story collections Close Range and Bad Dirt. Larry McMurtry is also a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of more than thirty novels, including Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove, several collections of essays and many screenplays. Diana Ossana has written two novels, more than a dozen screenplays and numerous essays.
'Beautifully composed and wonderfully acted ! a beautiful and moving story. Their story is not tragic, but heroic' Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 'Extremely moving and elegantly crafted ! "Brokeback got us good," says Jack, and it'll get you good too' Jonathan Romney, Independent '[An] elegiac and engrossing drama and a wonderful meditation on longing and regret ! Brokeback Mountain may even be Lee's finest film to date' Empire 'A knockout' Observer 'Magnificent' Sunday Times
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