Hardback US$30.40. Therese tries to move on with her life in New York without Carol. OK, so romance books are not my genre of choice. Was I in for a treat! Inexpensive: You’ll find quite a few iodized salts in the $1 to $5 range. Shit, I picked a great book to start the year off with. It saddens me to think this book has been stuffed into a musty box labeled "lesbian romance" and left to molder for over fifty years. She is captivated by Carol and sends a Christmas card to her along with her order from the store. She attends a party and notices her attractions are to females. Though the primary constituent is still sodium chloride, some people can taste subtle … Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations over the years. May 10, 2016. Shop Now. I have Feelings about this book. But she's not selling fancy perfumes. Early on Therese sees her as a woman who wants for nothing. By Gabrielle Bellot. She is written as such and it really looks like an adult taking advantage of a young girl with huge mommy issues. Salt and word expansion. The Price of Salt has a long history of identity crises.. Her attraction to Carol was no less real as a result of this, but the recognition shocked her. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Normally I don’t bother to read a book if I happen to see the film first but felt compelled to do so in this instance to see how much the screenplay had been altered. The title “The Price of Salt” is referring to a term like the “spice of life”, or in this case, the salt of life. Therese knows there is something wrong too, but just thinks Richard is not the one for her. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. From there it's a very short step to eeewww. RE-DISCOVERING HIGHSMITH'S OVERLOOKED CLASSIC, Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015. As usual, I feel beneath those who classified this as classic. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance. I almost felt like someone had described being in a queer relationship to Pat. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 4,161 reviews. I even turned off the lights! It isn't very glamorous, and she finds the retail job tedious and soul-sucking. Despite salt’s demotion as a financial instrument, its “influences” continue … But for much of human history, the price of an ounce of salt was almost the same price as an ounce of gold. When The Price of Salt was published in 1952, it was a rarity in lesbian literature. Carol intrigued by the act decides to thank her in person by taking her to dinner. The True Price of Salt: On the Book that Became “Carol”. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2018. 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