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The Price of Salt
Literature · 1952
Patricia Highsmith
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Literature 1952

The Price of Salt

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Author
Patricia Highsmith
Year
1952
Region
United States
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
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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...

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Patricia Highsmith, 1952 — 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...

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Keeps the route inside united states as a lived cultural field rather than treating place as backdrop.
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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...
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