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Inspired by the film Nomadland. Two dedicated librarians form a strong working relationship. A friendship develops, but both know there is something more between them. Will they take the next step? Can they? This story blends two soulmates prompts: 1. Person B is the tattoo artist who will do the cover. Share this, share that. Share your toys with the other kids who will no doubt lose them or take them, only to break them when you ask politely if you can pretty please have them back.

Share your pencils with the other kids in your group, all of whom have somehow neglected to bring their own. More humiliatingly, share your mother with her new stranger husband and her unborn child, whom she already evidently loves more than you. This is the aspect that has appealed to me most in her novels. And although the plot and thematic focus of Carol depart from the thriller genre that her publishers wanted her to follow, there is certainly enough "suspense" writing to have kept me reading until the wee hours.

Therese did not move for a moment. Carol glanced at her. She opened the clasps and got out the sweater with the gun. The detective was still following them, half a mile behind them, back of the horse and farm wagon that had turned into the highway from a dirt road. Therese looked down at the faintly freckled fingers that dug their strong cool tips into her palm.

I know that a few readers have found the book slow moving and boring, but I kinda liked the understated pace. It added to the feel of a s road trip into the middle of nowhere, which, I thought, was also an appropriate metaphor for the relationship between Therese and Carol - a journey that lacked company, landmarks, or sign posts.

In the Afterword written in of the edition I read, Highsmith wrote that she "like[s] to avoid labels. It is American publishers who love them. They rejected her manuscript of Carol and urged her to write another thriller. Defying her publisher's request, Highsmith offered to release the book under an alias and sought out another publisher who would to publish a lesbian romance novel that dared to criticise contemporary American society in Considering that this could have been the end of a writing career that had not even started, yet, and considering that presumably there would also have been some backlash to her personal exposure, I truly admire Highsmith's insistence on getting the book published.

The publication itself is not the only break with commercial wisdom that happened with Carol. Highsmith also broke with the convention of how she described her characters as ordinary women, how she re-evaluated the importance of home life and family, and asked the specific question of what price people would pay to even attempt living a life of their own design.

The music lived, but the world was dead. And the song would die one day, she thought, but how would the world come back to life? How would its salt come back? View all 13 comments. Jun 24, Alex rated it it was amazing Shelves: Patricia Highsmith lives in an ugly world. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, is almost unbearably bleak. Ripley is But between them all, and under a fake name, she also wrote this beautiful, aching jewel of a love story. Who knew? Highsmith Not the public, not for thirty years.

Most gay novels were required, believe it or not, to punish their protagonists, as in the contested and sorry ending of Spring Fire, another early lesbian classic. She describes Carol as the Winged Victory of Samothrace at one point, which is funny because it has no head. Carol's tricky. But when she appears in the department store where Therese works, she tears through her world - heretofore as dismal as Strangers - and Highsmith lets her book explode with hope and life.

It never really comes back down. Highsmith is one of our best writers, and this is her best book. Highsmith was anguished about her own queerness; her characters confuse passion with murder fairly regularly.

She fought and hid herself. I know this will never be. View all 11 comments. No matter how dull or lackluster it seems today, one can only imagine how many feathers were ruffled - especially since many of these authors were explicitly told that in order to avoid censorship, the lesbian characters could not have a happy ending. Was this book banned? But it's far more enjoyable to think about all the young and old women who read this book and felt validated.

I wanted to read this book after watching Vox's amazing video, Why so many queer female characters die on TV. The video delves into the whole " Bury Your Gays " trope, and was a response to Lexa's death on the popular TV show, The , and why it's so harmful.

Therese designs cardboard sets and works in the toy section of a department store. She's dating a dilettante painter who's basically using his hobby as a way to run away from his daddy.

One day, a well-dressed and impressive woman named Carol purchases a doll from her counter, and Therese is moved to write her a personalized card, telling her what a pleasure it was to service her heh. This being the time period that it was, though, neither Carol's husband nor Therese's boyfriend are quite willing to let them go, and it isn't long before their romantic getaway is spoiled by a hired detective who tries to use proof of their illicit affair as leverage to block Carol from seeing her child.

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I know this author can write - I loved her Mr. Ripley series and its gleefully sociopathic antihero. This is a very different style of story-telling and I'm not sure it ages quite as well. The plot is slow and plodding, and Therese is a hard narrator to like. She's very whiny and self-centered, and a bit of a hypocrite, too.

During one of her whine-sprees, she's complaining about how Richard, her boyfriend, feels entitled to her, because he was the first to sleep with her and naturally assumes that this means marriage. Granted, this is annoying, classic Chad the Incel behavior, and it's disgusting - but then she kind of does the same thing with Carol, seeming to assume that she's the first woman Carol's been with and getting upset and jealous when she finds out that there's been others, even though it's clear that these relationships aren't ongoing anymore.

There are walk-in freezers that are more sensual than these two characters. Maybe that's a constraint of the times, maybe not. View 2 comments. Feb 07, Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile rated it really liked it. A puzzling start, a bit of a slow middle, and a satisfying ending.

While I didn't actually connect with any of the main characters, the plot was enough to keep me going. May 24, Anne On semi-hiatus rated it really liked it Shelves: nyc , , audio , britain , new-york. It was very daring of Patricia Highsmith to write a realistic love story between 2 women in the s.

It just wasn't done, at least not in public in real life nor in a novel. I appreciated the slow story and the fabulous ending all the more once I finished the novel and thought about it and the meaning of the original title,. A Price of Salt. The title was the key to the meaning of the story for me. The gun. Now that was a tease, Ms. I was constantly on the lookout for something awful to happen; a suicidal gesture, a homicide But Highsmith wasn't up to anything like that in this novel.

She wrote Therese and Carol with great dignity and maturity in a very difficult situation. Joan Schenkar in her book. After Carol leaves her, Therese wonders, "How would the world come back to life? But where is the "price" for this salt? There is another biblical reference to salt which also applies to the title. She looked back and the price paid by her for doing so was the loss of her life. She turned into a pillar of salt. There are dozens of meanings to the story of Lot's Wife.

For this book and its title the story strongly suggests the importance of moving forward in life and not looking back at what you have left behind. At the end of the The Price of Salt both Therese and Carol know that they need to move forward with their lives whether they are together or not.

She has a new "look;" a new haircut and a new, more mature wardrobe and she has a new job. This new Therese will not go back to the old Carol. She refused to speak to her or see her after the breakup - she knew she had to move on with her life and she does just that. Carole also feels the need to move forward. She cannot return to her former life, pre-Therese, and a marriage that forced her to deny her true desires. This former life includes her daughter.

View all 74 comments. Apr 15, Robin rated it really liked it Shelves: , literary-fiction , highsmith , american. Reading Highsmith is like a drink of ice cold water - cleansing, refreshing, and invigorating. I noticed the same thing when I read The Talented Mr. Her prose is so spare, so clear. It keeps me focused and skipping along the page.

I love it. Published in , this story was originally written under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan" because of the controversial content - the love story between two women, Therese Belivet and the older, beautiful and mysterious Carol Aird. It's not terribly sur Reading Highsmith is like a drink of ice cold water - cleansing, refreshing, and invigorating.

It's not terribly surprising that this book inspired Nabokov's Lolita. Both books are steeped in intoxicating, overwhelming desire, with characters who act on this desire despite societal taboos. By today's standards, the lesbian love story isn't all that shocking. Taken within the 's context though, the story is surprisingly frank and timeless.

It's about two people navigating their relationship, with all the complications that come with it not the least being Carol's daughter and very messy divorce. It's full of tension and atmosphere did I mention the wonderful writing?

It's super stylish - ladies drinking old-fashioneds and highballs - and, the ending is not predictable. Some parts felt a little long, which is why this isn't a 5, but it's pretty darn close. PS There's a great scene I must mention that involves Therese struggling to fly a kite with her boyfriend who she is not attracted to, that English majors would love to dissect as a failing phallus - this was fascinating and entertaining.

View all 12 comments. Jan 28, Catherine rated it it was amazing. The Price of Salt , published in , is considered the first book—and the only one for a very long time afterwards—to depict a lesbian relationship with a happy ending.

Having just reread it, what strikes me now is how anyone, even lesbians, especially lesbians, could have thought that losing custody of your child with no visitation rights and being publicly humiliated in court and in the newspapers constituted a happy ending. And pulp fiction was the only place you could find stories about lesbian lovers. When I puzzled over the title, The Price of Salt , what first occurred to me was a quote from the book of Matthew in the New Testament: … if the salt should lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

I later learned from a biography of Patricia Highsmith that that is indeed where the title came from. In asking the price of salt, she is asking what price a person must pay to live an authentic life.

In those days it was a high price, if it was possible at all. At the end of the book Carol and Therese have a future together, and for us that was enough. So The Price of Salt does not have a happy ending, but it does have a hopeful one. View all 3 comments. Apr 01, dean rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , read-in This book had me in pieces by the end.

That last chapter, oh my god. Never mind the notion of Patricia Highsmith as an "unloving and unlovable woman"-- she clearly understood the painful delicate aches of love and loving and, having lost, the bittersweet triumph in growing up.

The Price of Salt carries an emotional honesty that is exquisite and devastating. Highsmith's prose is simple but she realizes even the smallest moments with a keen observance. The results are gorgeous and tender, and at tim This book had me in pieces by the end. The results are gorgeous and tender, and at times even comic -- the melodramatic angst of interruptions, to the wistfulness in seeing a lover's hands, to the thrill of meeting for the first time The romance being between two women should really hold no bearing of anyone's enjoyment of this book, but having read the afterword and knowing the climate during the time of publication makes the story seem especially courageous.

View 1 comment. I have read a lot of early queer pulp and normally I love them for their honesty and the raw emotion they present. Here there was none of that, everything just felt like it was being written about behind a veil. There was none of the soul searching and the camaraderie that is found in other lesbian pulps. The writing style did nothing for me either, I felt it was very dry.

I almost felt like someone had described being in a queer relationship to Patricia and she decided to write about that based on her fantasies rather than personal experience. I think the biggest problem I had with this was that Carol and Therese was totally boring. Carol was a rich housewife who did nothing. Therese wanted to have a career but spent her entire time moping expecting her boyfriend's connections to find her work.

The two just seemed obsessed with money and shopping and having a very occasional cocktail. Even when they went on their "road trip" there was nothing interesting. There was no sense of adventure or place anywhere they visited. It was just a series of dull hotels.

It made you wonder why they bothered to leave New York in the first place. There are so many better old lesbian novels out there. I really can't recommend this one at all. View all 16 comments. I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever. Carol, by the sublime Patricia Highsmith did not disappoint.

The story centres around a young woman called Therese, who is a theatre set designer but currently working at a store in the crazy world of the toy department at Christmas time. Something I would have liked I reckon — hard work, but imagine t I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever.

Something I would have liked I reckon — hard work, but imagine the buzz! Anyway, Therese spends her day working hard, mostly confused, suffering under the humourless conduct of the supercilious supervisors — then one day, the beautiful Carol comes in to buy a doll.

BUT — Therese is walloped into orbit by this stylish, mature woman. She is totally captivated by her style, presence, eyes, smell, clothes everything!!! She does this by sending her a Christmas card. This is when the drama starts. This suffocatingly, dark offering from Highsmith is engrossing. So, what are we dealing with here? Is it all about obsession? Is it love or is it some sort of psychopathic preoccupation? This is a very uneasy read.

Does one want the best for Carol and Therese? My word, I found the last 60 or 70 pages totally engrossing. I am being totally truthful here — I just did not want it to end. Well, end it did. What are the chances of that happening? Sep 09, Bandit rated it it was amazing. If you read enough books, you're bound to become jaded once in a while by all the sub par ones out there and then a book like The Price of Salt comes along to remind you just how great a book can really be and what a reading experience should really be like.

Yes, I loved this book THAT much : My only other experience with Highsmith's work until then has been through Ripley movies and I liked the character of Ripley, but not enough to track down the books.

I picked up this book, because the cover If you read enough books, you're bound to become jaded once in a while by all the sub par ones out there and then a book like The Price of Salt comes along to remind you just how great a book can really be and what a reading experience should really be like. I picked up this book, because the cover said that this was the one to inspire Lolita, one of my all time favorites. This was the author's second book, originally published under a pseudonym to avoid being typecast as a lesbian writer.

It was also for years misfiled as a mystery, which it really is not. It's a coming of age story, a story about relationships and consequences, a story about a road trip, an eye opening and fairly frightening account of how lesbians were treated as recently as 60 years ago, but most of all it's a really great love story, about first love, the most difficult of all.

I've read that Patricia Highsmith has been a particularly unpleasant person, particularly during her later years, which makes it so interesting how well and sympathetically she is able to describe the inner turmoils and thoughts and actions of her characters. I plan on becoming a commentator. If you have a desktop computer bought from a store of late, itll likely run this game. I think Im maxing out the ram memory on my pc causing video games and video to run slow.

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