num_pages: 276
description: Arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.
language: English
title: The Price of Salt
titlecomplete: The Price of Salt
characters: Therese Belivet, Abby Gerhard, Harge Aird, Richard Semco, Carol Aird
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Romance, Adult, Classics, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 66278
places: New York (State), Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York City, New York
publisher: Naiad Press