Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
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Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.
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1950s, 20th centuryShowing 10 featured editions. View all 72 editions?
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Carol
2015, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W. W. Norton & Company
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Carol
2015, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The price of salt
2004, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton
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Carol. Roman einer ungewöhnlichen Liebe.
September 1, 1992, Diogenes Verlag
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The price of salt
1991, Naiad Press
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This edition originally published as The price of salt by Claire Morgan, 1952; as Carol by Patricia Highsmith. London: Bloomsbury, 1990.
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THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility of happiness) which defied the lesbian pulp formula and because of the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, THE PRICE OF SALT was popular among lesbians in the 1950s. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance.
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