Carol
Patricia Highsmith, 1952
The Price of Salt
307 pages
Read in 2024.4
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ Written originally under pseudonym
✔ Lesbian love story and coming of age
✔ Bittersweet
★★★★☆ An unusual love story; a girl and a woman fall in love, they run away, but there's the tension you wouldn't expect from people in love. And it's bittersweet, as ever.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
The movie was with Cate Blanchette, I haven't watched it yet so didn't know the story much but i can see it's a perfect casting.
It must have been a shock when it came out but not as much as it would have been if people knew it was written by her and not was pseudonymous.
I only recently read The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters so I cannot help myself comparing them but it's not so obviously a suspense or mystery.
An unusual love story; they fall in love, they run away, but there's the tension you wouldn't expect from people in love.
Is it a dare? Is it more about a girl growing up to become a woman. Like there are many stories for boy becoming a man, this is one of those.
And it's bittersweet, as ever.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
The Price of Salt, or Carol
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Carol
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Carol (Italiano)
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