The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
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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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The price of salt
2004, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton
in English
- Rev. ed. / with an afterword by the author, Patricia Highsmith.
0393325997 9780393325997
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The price of salt
1991, Naiad Press
in English
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1562800035 9781562800031
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