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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote the Ripley series, as well as Strangers on a Train which Hitchbock turned into a film. The book is a landmark because it was one of the first to have a (fairly) happy ending for its main protagonists - a lesbian couple. Howe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57313913">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's <em>Lolita.</em></strong>  <p>&quot;I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew <em>The Price of Salt</em> and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in <em>Lolita</em> on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom,&quot; writes Terry Castle in <em>The New Republic</em> about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, <em>The Price of Salt</em> 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, <em>The Price of Salt</em> may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read The Talented Mr. Ripley a month or so ago and there was something about Highsmith’s style that made the book a really compelling read and when I found out a little more about her and that she wrote a book about a lesbian relationship, which was apparently strongly embraced during the second...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61717161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's <em>Lolita.</em></strong>  <p>&quot;I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew <em>The Price of Salt</em> and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in <em>Lolita</em> on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom,&quot; writes Terry Castle in <em>The New Republic</em> about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, <em>The Price of Salt</em> 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, <em>The Price of Salt</em> may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considering how many people seem to have adored this one, I wish I could say that I even got beyond the first few chapters. But I didn't. The characters started off so flat that a steamrolled pancake might have more depth, and the book moved at the pace of a snail. When I realised that I was suppose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73757160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An incredible book. This is the first book by Patricia Highsmith I've read, and I think I want to read everything she has ever written over the next year or so now, because the way she writes is very unique and very lovely. I liked everything about this book (1950s lesbians in New York! The warehous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70691954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[originally published under the nom de plume Claire Morgan in order to protect Patricia Highsmith's successful career as a mystery writer, THE PRICE OF SALT is as valuable for its place in literary history as it is for its content.  it was the first book with homosexual themes and characters that did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1633277">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read this book fifteen years ago, it probably would have changed my life. As it is, I'm tremendously glad to have come across <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7622.Patricia_Highsmith" title="Patricia Highsmith">Patricia Highsmith</a> and I am glad this book in particular is in the world. An antidote to the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129223.The_Well_of_Loneliness" title="The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall">Well of Loneliness</a> style of unhappily ever after endings.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65591547">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read that a lot of people liked it, but it certainly wasn't my kind of book. the characters seemed too detached and the emotions weren't delved deep into, which in a book that writes about the brimming emergence of lesbian sexuality in Terez could have had just so much to say. <br/><br/>the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78219677">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it right after the Well of Lonliness so anything would have been uplifting after that. Pretty schticky, as I recall, but any book is good where girl gets girl and lives happily ever after - especially back in the 70s when there was so little &quot;happy lesbian&quot; literature available - than...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80176843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that this book is excellent esp considering when it was written. It was one of the only gay books in that time period to have what was considered a happy ending. No One died,married or copped out in any way. I like her style of writing. Soooo different than the Mr Rippley Series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite book. EVER! Read twice, so far. I was hesitant to read this book at first, because it was written so long ago, but it's a classic. The writing is incredible. I'll spend an hour on one page, rereading segments because of how well it's written. How did Highsmith do it? LOVE it.]]></body>
    
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