Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as 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.

兩個西部牛仔在1963年的夏天於懷俄明州的斷背山相遇，進而相知相惜，然而在週遭流言蜚語的強烈壓力下，他們不得不屈服於周遭的保守環境，放棄相戀，各自結婚生子。然而四年後的重逢，卻讓兩人情慾再度爆發，不可收拾。本書由李安導演改編成同名電影，打破對牛仔的傳統觀念，屢獲電影大獎。