Thursday, May 03, 2018

Quote May 3rd

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.” 

This is the last line in Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain"
If you want more reading check out the link below.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/10/13/brokeback-mountain

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Author E. Annie Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1994 for her novel 'The Shipping News.'

Synopsis

Award-winning author E. Annie Proulx began her career by writing nonfiction and founding a rural Vermont newspaper. She became the first woman to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel Postcards (1992). For her next work, The Shipping News, Proulx won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Proulx followed with the 1996 novel Accordion Crimes. In 1998, her short work "Brokeback Mountain" was named an O. Henry Prize Story. It was made into a feature film in 2005. In addition to these, Proulx has written a number of nonfiction, fiction and short-story collections.

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