Now a major film starring Cate Blanchett and nominated for four Golden Globes
'Some books change lives. This is one of them' Val McDermidA haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published
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Now a major film starring Cate Blanchett and nominated for four Golden Globes
'Some books change lives. This is one of them' Val McDermidA haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...
First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.
Critic Reviews
“'A document of persecuted love ... perfect'”
'Has the drive of a thriller but the imagery of a romance ... This is a book that is hard to set aside; it demands to be read late into the night with eyes burning and heart racing' Val McDermid
‘A document of persecuted love ... perfect' Independent
‘Gently exploratory, genuinely moving' Mail on Sunday
‘An original, honest novel, a remarkable imaginative achievement by any standard ... compelling' Financial Times
About the Author
Patricia Highsmith is the author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID..Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.
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