The Price of Salt
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. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility of happiness) which defied the lesbian pulp formula and because of the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, THE PRICE OF SALT was popular among lesbians in the 1950s. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 88740 readers · 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Demanding
How long does it take to read The Price of Salt?
About ≈ 6 h 31 m — 352 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Price of Salt?
352 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Price of Salt?
It sits on the Classics, Philosophy, Romance shelves.
Has The Price of Salt been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include Carol (2016), Carol (2015).
Is The Price of Salt in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The Price of Salt take place?
It is set in New York, New Jersey, Chicago during 1950s, 20th century.
Who wrote The Price of Salt?
Patricia Highsmith.