num_pages: 64
description: Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working a sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
language: English
title: Brokeback Mountain
titlecomplete: Brokeback Mountain
characters: Jack Twist, Ennis Del Mar, Joe Aguirre, Alma Beers, Lureen
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, M M Romance, Queer, LGBT, Westerns, Romance, Adult, Contemporary, Gay
ratings_count: 40610
places: Texas, Wyoming
series: Wyoming Stories
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: O. Henry Award
publisher: Scribner