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Published in 1955 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt is Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated lesbian love story. Set in the 1950s, the novel centers on two women who meet and navigate social pressures, divorce, and child‑custody issues while discovering affection for one another. Through its unexpected focus on a positive, hopeful ending and complex, realistic characters, the book stood out among contemporaneous LGBTQ pulp fiction and resonated strongly with lesbian readers of the era. Though it fell out of print, it has been reissued and remains a milestone in lesbian romance and twentieth‑century queer literature.
First publish date: 1993
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Lesbian Fiction
Authors: Patricia Highsmith
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