The price of salt /
This novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, was first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. The Price of Salt 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 al...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tallahassee, Florida :
Naiad Press,
1984.
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| Edition: | Revised edition with an afterword / |
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| Summary: | This novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, was first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. The Price of Salt 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. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 276 pages ; 22 cm Also issued online. |
| ISBN: | 0930044495 9780930044497 |