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can I tell my funny E Annie Proux story?
I was looking for a Christmas present for my grandmother. She (even then) was getting that bit older so larger books with small type are not the best things to buy. She’s also someone who’s driven across the USA in her one big foreign adventure with my deceased grandfather.
I happened upon brokeback mountain, having read the shipping news myself I new that Ms Proux’s style would sit comfortably with my grandmother. I read the back - and it said something like this
“Set in the unforgiving landscape of Wyoming, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two cowboys struggling to deal with the bleakness of America’s harshest landscape”
“Winner of the US National Magazine Award following its publication in The New Yorker in 1997, Annie Proulx’s novella Brokeback Mountain follows her international success with The Shipping News and Accordian Crimes, confirming her status as one of the most powerful and accomplished voices in contemporary American fiction.”
Nowhere, did it say that the men would fall in love and engage what could only be described as “fairly rough gay sex” and that the “fairly rough gay sex” they engaged in would be quite vividly and brilliantly described.
Thanks be to jesus my mother had spotted the intended present and read the book, and that I had bought a Poinsettia for my Grandmother too. …
damn it’s not as funny in print.