The Price of Salt: Or, Carol by Patricia Highsmith (written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), is a groundbreaking 1952 romance novel about a passionate lesbian love affair between a young sales clerk and an older, sophisticated housewife in 1950s New York. It is widely acclaimed for its sensitive and realistic portrayal of a same-sex relationship that, uniquely for its time, offered a hopeful ending.
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter.
Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.
Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn’t love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter.
As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol’s world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose.
First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties’ New York.
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