The Price of Salt
About this book
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility of happiness) which defied the lesbian pulp formula and because of the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, THE PRICE OF SALT was popular among lesbians in the 1950s. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance.
Subjects
- automobile travel
- child custody
- classics
- collectionid:sleazy_pulp
- custody of children
- divorce
- early works to 1800
- english & college success -> english -> fiction
- family relationships
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, lesbian
- fiction, lgbtq+, gay
- fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, romance, fantasy
- fiction, romance, general
- lesbian
- lesbian love story
- lesbian romance novel
- lesbians
- lesbians, fiction
- lgbtq fiction before stonewall
- literary
- media tie-in
- mothers
- nineteen fifties
- philosophy
- political ethics
- political science
- psychological
- road trip
- romance
- social conditions
- the state