Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards
By (Author) Dr Mark Asquith
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
10th September 2009
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
813.54
Paperback
136
Width 132mm, Height 188mm, Spine 12mm
158g
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.
Mark Asquith is the author of Reading the Novels of John Williams: A Flaw of Light (2018); The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulxs 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.