The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
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Original pseudonymous edition.
(Claire Morgan aka Patricia Highsmith)
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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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The price of salt
2004, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton
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- Rev. ed. / with an afterword by the author, Patricia Highsmith.
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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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Edition Notes
Copyright page:
Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans, Green and Company, Toronto.
The lyrics quoted on pages 128 and 130 are from the song "Easy Living," by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, copyright, 1937, by Famous Music Corporation, and are reprinted by courtesy of the Famous Music Corporation.
The lines quoted on page 16 are from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T. S. Eliot, and are reprinted by courtesy of Harcourt, Brace and Company. Copyright, 1934, 1936, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.
Dedication:
To EDNA, JORDY, AND JEFF
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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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