Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards

This guide to Annie Proulx's novel Postcards and her short story Brokeback Mountain features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the texts, a summary of the their popular and critical reception, a discussion of the recent film adaptation of Brokeback Mountain and its reception and a great deal more. If you are studying either text, reading them for your book club, or if you simply want to know more, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful.

Auteur

Mark Asquith is the author of Reading the Novels of John Williams: A Flaw of Light (2018); The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx's Short Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014); *Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain *and Postcards: A Readers' Guide (Bloomsbury, 2009); and Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music (2005) in addition to numerous articles on 19th-century English and contemporary American literature. He holds a PhD from UCL, the University of London, UK.

Contenu

1. The Novelist
   
   2. The Texts
   3. Their Reception
   4. Their Performance
      Further Reading and Discussion Questions
      Bibliography