Carol (Romance)

Carol ( The Price off Salt , also translated under the title catch Water ) is a novel lesbian of Patricia Highsmith published under the pseudonym of Claire Morgan in 1952.

Summary

With New York, Therese, a young decorator of theater not finding work accepts an use with Frankenberg, a clothes shop. Another employee, Mrs. Robichek, try to allure it, but dark Therese in a kind of torpor.

The companion of Therese, Richard, makes him Phil meeting, which can help it to find an employment in the theater. However, during her work to the store, a large fair woman in fur coat appears. The customer buys a bag to him. Therese cannot forget it and sends a chart to him, the customer telephones the store and proposes to him to take glass together for the following day.

Therese becomes acquainted with Carol thus, a woman married in divorce pending. They discover their reciprocal feelings, but Carol fears that her husband serf of their relation to withdraw the guard of their child to him.

Reception

Second novel of Patricia Highsmith after the Unknown of the North-Express train , Carol is not a detective novel, and therefore Highsmith chooses to publish it under pseudonym. In the foreword of 1989, it indicates the circumstances of its drafting, and the success of the edition of pocket of the novel near the assistantship lesbian. Several letters testified to their recognition to have written a novel lesbian which finished well, unlike the negative and pessimistic representations of the time.

External bonds

Presentation of the novel by the editor
Report of the novel

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