![]() The Price of Salt is a brilliantly written story that may surprise Highsmith fans and will delight those discovering her work. ![]() ![]() They fall in love and set out across the United States, ensnared by society's confines and the imminent disapproval of others, yet propelled by their infatuation. When The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith’s second novel, was finally published in 1952, it had already cost its dishy young author a wagonload of worry, a telephone book full of friends. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. One day, Patricia Highsmith, while working at a doll counter at a department store in the US, met a woman in a mink coat who made her feel odd and swimmy. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.īased on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany-the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. When she first published the book in 1952 as The Price of Salt, author Patricia Highsmith used a pseudonym: Claire Morgan. ![]() ![]() "A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." - Entertainment Weekly ![]()
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