The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
Taste attributes: romancegay/lesbiandramahistoricalfresh & originallinearglossyemotive & stirringlove conquers allcomplex relationshipsocial commentary
Boxlist takeAn emotional romance novel, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.4 / 5
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About This Book
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked.
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- Patricia Highsmith
- Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 276
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