The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith, W. W. Norton

List Price: $13.95
Our Price: $8.27
You Save: $5.68 (41%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.11 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Book Reviews of The Price of Salt

Book Review: The Price was Worth It
Summary: 5 Stars

Summary of The Price of Salt

"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, 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. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.

Movie Tie-Ins Books

• Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction
• General > Classics
• Contemporary
• Literary
• History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > General
• Classics
• Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Lesbian
• Mystery & Thrillers > Lesbian
• Mystery & Thrillers > Authors, A-Z > ( H ) > Highsmith, Patricia > General
• Paperback
• General