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tiawahcowboy

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Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain is a short story, not a novella
« on: May 29, 2006, 01:50:36 pm »
For a short novel to be a novella, it has to be somewhere between 50 and 100 pages long when published in a regular sized book. And there would be 30 to 40 lines of text on a page.

But, even the little 4 3/4" x 7 1/4" (12 cm. x 18 cm.) sized stand-alone paperback edition of Brokeback Mountain only has 23 lines per page and lines-wise, only 52 pages of text.

So, Brokeback Mountain is not a novella, IMO; it is a short story.
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Offline YaadPyar

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Re: Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain is a short story, not a novella
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2006, 01:18:03 pm »
OK - I think everyone agrees with you about that, especially since it was published originally as a short story...
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tiawahcowboy

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Re: Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain is a short story, not a novella
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2006, 02:04:36 pm »
Quote from: YaadPyar on May 30, 2006, 01:18:03 pm
OK - I think everyone agrees with you about that, especially since it was published originally as a short story...

Then why did at least 9 of them call "Brokeback Mountain" a novella here in BetterMost?
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