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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Fourth Estate GBP 3.99 (GBP 3.49)
*****
It used to be the love that `dared not speak its name', and in Annie Proulx's tragic novella, across America's rural Midwest, it still is. Two men, herding sheep one winter on Brokeback Mountain, sleep with each other, ostensibly out of necessity and opportunism. This moment engenders a searingly carnal and romantic love, days of bliss snatched out of years of duty, marriage and separate lives. Their he-man...