false 52258 13 <B>Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's <I>Lolita.</I></B> <P>"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew <I>The Price of Salt</I> and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in <I>Lolita</I> on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in <I>The New Republic</I> about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, <I>The Price of Salt</I> 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, <I>The Price of Salt</I> may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel. 50983 1984 The Price of Salt total:422|5:80|4:188|3:115|2:32|1:7| 422 1568 634 66 3 1 false true Sun Jun 08 02:38:41 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 02:48:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 18:58:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 19:14:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 30 21:22:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 07:19:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Oct 07 11:38:38 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 11:55:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 23:55:35 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 10:28:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 02:38:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 02:47:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 03:37:24 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 02:49:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Mar 24 13:55:32 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 23 14:03:10 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 14:03:39 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 12:44:11 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 12:50:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 23:04:49 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 10:13:02 -0700 2008
This book was recommended to me by a friend of a friend at a reading. I'd already read the books being discussed and I wanted to support the bookstore, so I bought it.

Am I glad! It's the story of two women who fall in love and take a r...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 28 18:45:56 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 19:46:54 -0800 2008 The Price of Salt was published under a pseudonym so as not to ruin the career of Patricia Highsmith, celebrated mystery writer.

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