TY - BOOK AU - Highsmith,Patricia AU - Morgan,Claire TI - The price of salt SN - 1469971879 (pbk) PY - 2012///] CY - [United States PB - CreateSpace KW - Lesbians KW - Fiction KW - Love stories KW - gsafd N1 - Originally published: 1952 N2 - This novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, was first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover ER -