No Quitting Ennis and Jack
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The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon
Edited by William R. Handley
University of Nebraska Press. 386 pages, $24.95

I   CONFESS to having been somewhat surprised upon learning about another book on that doomed cowboy-on-cowboy love story, Brokeback Mountain. But as editor William R. Handley shows in this new anthology about Jack and Ennis’ tortured, unrealized, lifelong love affair, there is still more to be said about the movie that elicited such a wide range of responses, so many of them extreme and at odds with one another, since the movie’s 2005 release.