The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith, Claire Morgan


Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00 · 33 ratings · 296 pages · Published: 1952

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Claire Morgan
Arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is the 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, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.

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