The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt is a 1952 M/M romance and gay fiction novel by Patricia Highsmith. It takes readers to New York and New Jersey in the 1950s. Readers will find themes of lesbians, lesbian love story, Divorce and child custody.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 28 ratings, and 501 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 72 editions across 6 languages.
At about 276 pages, most readers finish it in 5–6 hours.
About The Price of Salt
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility of happiness) which defied the lesbian pulp formula and because of the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, THE PRICE OF SALT was popular among lesbians in the 1950s. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance.
Quick answers
Who wrote The Price of Salt?
The Price of Salt was written by Patricia Highsmith and first published in 1952.
What genre is The Price of Salt?
It is usually shelved as M/M Romance, Gay Fiction, Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction and Queer Fantasy.
How long is The Price of Salt?
The median edition has 276 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to The Price of Salt?
Readers who like it often enjoy Not Your Sidekick, Somewhere Beyond the Sea and The Gilda Stories.
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