Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith
Contributors: Morgan, Claire, 1921-1995
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781408865675
Subjects: Lesbians; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: This edition originally published as The price of salt by Claire Morgan, 1952; as Carol by Patricia Highsmith. London: Bloomsbury, 1990.