"Originally featured in the collection
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx, this brief and emotive piece is as beautifully rendered as any of the Pulitzer winner's best work. At first read, this heartbreaking tale of the forbidden love between two male ranchers seems both too brief and too sparse to be adapted to film properly (as its mere 30 pages spans two decades). But with a screenplay constructed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry (
Lonesome Dove) and the directorial genius of Oscar-winner Ang Lee (
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon),
Brokeback Mountain is as much an accomplishment on the silver screen as it was on the page."