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The Price of Salt
''The Price of Salt'' (later published under the title ''Carol'') is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer based on her one earlier novel, ''Strangers on a Train'' – used a pseudonym due to the story's lesbian content. Its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in gay fiction.
==Composition==
According to Highsmith, the novel was inspired by a blonde woman in a fur coat she saw shopping at a department store while working as a temporary sales clerk selling dolls shortly before Christmas in 1948. She recalled completing the book's outline in two hours that night, likely under the influence of chickenpox which she discovered she had only the next day: "() is stimulating to the imagination." She completed the novel by 1951.〔 Highsmith's account of the composition of the novel dates from the Naiad Press edition of 1984.〕 For the plot she drew on the experiences of her former lover, Virginia Kent Catherwood, a Philadelphia socialite who had lost custody of her child in divorce proceedings involving taped hotel room conversations and lesbianism.
She found encouragement from one of her Barnard College teachers, Ethel Sturtevant,〔Highsmith named Sturtevant as one of the dedicatees of her 1958 novel ''A Game for the Living''.〕 who read some early extracts and said: "Now this packs a wallop!"〔
Highsmith's publisher, Harper & Bros, rejected the novel.〔 Coward-McCann published it in hardcover in 1952. The 25-cent Bantam paperback edition appeared in 1953 followed by another edition with jacket copy that announced "The novel of a love society forbids." Sales totaled more than a million copies.〔
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