The Price of Salt
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"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew <i>The Price of Salt</i> and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in <i>Lolita</i> on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in <i>The New Republic</i> about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, <i>The Price of Salt</i> 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. With this reissue, <i>The Price of Salt</i> may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.
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