Journal Entry 1 by tqd from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Friday, February 01, 2008

My first bookmooch! And it came unregistered, so I'll register it and pass it along.

I have to say I wasn't a big fan of The Shipping News, but I loved the movie of Brokeback Mountain so much, I was very curious to read the story.

From the back of the book (all typos mine):

Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly...

Inventive, compassionate and full of macabre humour, the eleven extraordinary tales in Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories reveal a writer at the height of her powers.