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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New York, New Jersey, Chicago, United StatesTimes
1950s, 20th centuryShowing 11 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
in English
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140886567X 9781408865675
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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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Carol. Roman einer ungewöhnlichen Liebe.
September 1, 1992, Diogenes Verlag
Paperback
3257224877 9783257224870
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The price of salt
1991, Naiad Press
in English
- Rev. ed. / with an afterword by the author, Patricia Highsmith.
1562800035 9781562800031
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The price of salt
1984, Naiad Press
in English
- Rev. ed. with an afterword / by the author, Claire Morgan.
0930044495 9780930044497
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