This reprint edition is based on the original
and unrevised 1952 version of “The Price of Salt” whose copyright was
never renewed in the 28th year following publication as required for
renewal, and is not the Naiad Press version of 1984 which has slight
revisions and an afterword.
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.
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