The price of salt
By: Patricia Highsmith (writing as Claire Morgan).
Edition: Rev. ed. / with an afterword by the author, Patricia Highsmith.
Publisher: Naiad Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Tallahassee, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Lesbians -- Fiction.
Description: This novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, was first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. The Price of Salt tells the riveting 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.