The Price of Salt
 

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

With an autobiographical Afterword by the author, "The Price of Salt" is now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's "Lolita." (read review)

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SUMMARY: The dull, routine life of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department store sales job, is forever shattered by the appearance one day of Carol Aird, a customer shopping for a
Christmas gift for her daughter. Therese feels an immediate attraction, which she pursues. They meet a few times and, when Carols divorce is all-but-finalized, decide to take a cross-country trip together. As they come to know each other better, their love deepens- only to be put to put to the...

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