The price of salt - Rambling Readers

288 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-393-32599-7

(1 review)

The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan". Highsmith—known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train—used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian-book writer", and she also used her own life references for characters and occurrences in the story. Although Highsmith wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories and had many sexual and romantic relationships with women, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship, and its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature. It is also notable for being the only one of her novels with "a conventional 'happy ending'" and characters who had "more explicit sexual existences".A British radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast in 2014. Carol, a film adaptation released …

The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan". Highsmith—known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train—used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian-book writer", and she also used her own life references for characters and occurrences in the story. Although Highsmith wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories and had many sexual and romantic relationships with women, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship, and its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature. It is also notable for being the only one of her novels with "a conventional 'happy ending'" and characters who had "more explicit sexual existences".A British radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast in 2014. Carol, a film adaptation released in 2015, was nominated for six Academy Awards and nine British Academy Film Awards.

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1 star

sorry, but this supposed breakthrough novel was a tedious read.

therese is a young lesbian looking for love in an older woman. or is she?
the author goes out of her way to tell us how therese was abandoned by the mother at a young age and transfered her affections to the nun that ran her orphanage... so is she looking for a lover or a mother? (and if you were pro-lesbian, why would you confuse the issue by adding details that make someone's love choice one of a psychological (pathological?) nature?

the only good thing about the on-and-on-and-on plot was that therese finally grows a backbone and stops neing inwardly controlled by her older lover, carol.

Subjects

Lesbians -- Fiction