Book (vs Movie) Review: CAROL (by Patricia Highsmith)
FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: CAROL (The Price of Salt) Author: Patricia Highsmith Publisher: Norton & Company; Movie Tie-In Price: 11 ,99 € (Amazon) Pages: 304 Genre: LGBTQ* Year: 2015 (first published 1952) BACK OF THE BOOK / WHAT'S IT ABOUT? Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic. Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, Carol tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany—the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is tr...