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the price of salt (in English)
Patricia Highsmith
Synopsis "the price of salt (in English)"
Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany--the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. They fall in love and set out across the United States, ensnared by society's confines and the imminent disapproval of others, yet propelled by their infatuation. The Price of Salt is a brilliantly written story that may surprise Highsmith fans and will delight those discovering her work.
Nació en Fort Worth, Texas, en 1921, pero se mudó a Nueva York cuando tenía seis años. A la edad de dieciséis años se convirtió en escritora. Se caracterizaba por ser una persona solitaria. Se mudó a Europa en 1963 y pasó sus últimos años en una casa aislada cerca de Locarno, en la frontera entre Suiza e Italia. A su muerte, dejó tres millones de dólares de su patrimonio a Yaddo, la comunidad de artistas en el norte de Nueva York. Su primera novela Strangers on a Train, fue convertida en una famosa película de Alfred Hitchcock en 1951. Su última novela Small g: A Summer Idyll se publicó póstumamente poco más de un mes después.