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The Price of Salt, or Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered.”
This book deserves all the stars considering I have watched the film adaption of it several times and yet I devoured it as if I hadn’t known what was coming. The writing is rich, visceral. It hurts my heart to know this was considered a happy ending for a lesbian novel at the time of its publication. There’s so much lesbian media that describes a subtle yearning; the brush of a hand, the darting of eyes at a bar. But The Price of Salt is different in that it was published during a time where those acts were of immediate and consequential risk, making every movement thereafter a daring act. And yet!!!! Carol & Therese plunge forward, knowing that the risk of not doing so is even greater.
This book deserves all the stars considering I have watched the film adaption of it several times and yet I devoured it as if I hadn’t known what was coming. The writing is rich, visceral. It hurts my heart to know this was considered a happy ending for a lesbian novel at the time of its publication. There’s so much lesbian media that describes a subtle yearning; the brush of a hand, the darting of eyes at a bar. But The Price of Salt is different in that it was published during a time where those acts were of immediate and consequential risk, making every movement thereafter a daring act. And yet!!!! Carol & Therese plunge forward, knowing that the risk of not doing so is even greater.