{"product_id":"9781626543119","title":"The Price of Salt, or Carol","description":"\u003ci\u003eNow recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eLolita.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom,\" writes Terry Castle in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel. \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003ePatricia Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e is the author of such classics as \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNothing That Meets the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054631370992,"sku":"9781626543119","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626543119_p0.jpg?v=1763864194","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626543119","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}