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LiberalJustice
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13 Apr 2014, 8:44 pm

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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.


Is there anyone else who has read this book?


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13 Apr 2014, 10:36 pm

it needs to be a movie.



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14 Apr 2014, 3:53 pm

No, but it certainly sounds, er... is stimulating the right word? :lol:


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14 Apr 2014, 3:57 pm

if it were at least turned into an audio book I can imagine meryl streep's voice narrating it.