BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: THE "FILM TIE-IN" FIRST EDITION

New York City, NY: Scribner, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Scribner, 2005. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 55 pages. The author's novella-length short story. One of the greatest American short stories of our time. The First "Film Tie-in" Edition. Marks the first appearance of the title by itself in the United States. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The piece first appeared (sensationally) in The New Yorker Magazine's October 13, 1997 Issue. It was subsequently issued as a softcover original (in 1998 and in the United Kingdom only) and then collected, together with her other stories, as "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" (in 1999 and as a hardcover original only) . It should also not be confused with "Brokeback Mountain: Story To Screenplay", which describes the story's process of original creation and subsequent adaptation. This First "Film Tie-In" Edition is now scarce. A lovely production by Erich Hobbing: Small-size volume format. Pictorial softcovers, which feature Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Annie Proulx. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a special collectible edition, Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain". Her best story. How a "woman writer" could write what is now considered the finest sexual/romantic story between two cowboys is a tribute to Annie Proulx's genius: Two ranch hands meet on a job and, without thinking about it, fall in love. High-school dropouts, they have lived very rough lives, are penniless, and desperately in need of work. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist end up herding for the same sheep operation on Brokeback Mountain. Proulx describes the ever-escalating passion of their sexual encounters in the most explicit yet tender manner. The love affair ends when they reluctantly go their separate ways. Four years later, they are reunited as married men with children, and quickly pick up where they left off. How the story unfolds and finally ends is vintage, top-drawer Proulx. The basis of the award-winning film by Ang Lee, with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. An absolute "must-have" title for Annie Proulx collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Annie Proulx. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First "Film Tie-In" Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Annie Proulx's signature is TINY. But it's there. Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for "Postcards". Winner of the National Book Award in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for "The Shipping News". "Brokeback Mountain" was the Winner of the U. S. National Magazine Award in 1998. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANNIE PROULX TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0743271327.