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spookynorvegan 's review for:
Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
This book definitely deserves a high place in the 20th century queer literature canon.
It offered its readers a glimpse of a non-pulp love story between two women in 1952, when their relationship was not only generally culturally taboo but also grounds for the loss of their social lives and even the custody of their own children. The conclusion of the novel even offers the protagonists a happy ending with a semblence of normalcy that doesn't involve either of them meeting 'the right man', or 'coming to their senses'.
The prose is just beautiful, and Therese is a captivating narrator who interprets and experiences the world around her with jarringly honest and raw language.
I just loved this book, for both purely stylistic reasons, and also for the narrative itself. I would definitely recommend it further.
It offered its readers a glimpse of a non-pulp love story between two women in 1952, when their relationship was not only generally culturally taboo but also grounds for the loss of their social lives and even the custody of their own children. The conclusion of the novel even offers the protagonists a happy ending with a semblence of normalcy that doesn't involve either of them meeting 'the right man', or 'coming to their senses'.
The prose is just beautiful, and Therese is a captivating narrator who interprets and experiences the world around her with jarringly honest and raw language.
I just loved this book, for both purely stylistic reasons, and also for the narrative itself. I would definitely recommend it further.