The Price of Salt, or Carol - by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With an autobiographical Afterword by the author, "The Price of Salt" is now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's "Lolita."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as the novel of a love that society forbids, the book soon became a cult classic.</p><p>Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, <em>The Price of Salt</em> (or <em>Carol</em>) 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. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. 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. <em>The Price of Salt</em> is a brilliantly written story that may surprise Highsmith fans and will delight those discovering her work.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A document of persecuted love--perfect.-- "The Independent"<br><br>About the pursuit of love, and true happiness...It has characters who laugh, and who laugh without scorn or illusion...very recognizably Highsmith, full of tremor and of threat and of her peculiar genius for anxiety.-- "The Sunday Times"<br><br>Viscerally romantic.--Margaret Talbot "The New Yorker"<br>
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