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Carol Patricia Highsmith

Carol By Patricia Highsmith

Carol by Patricia Highsmith


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Summary

'Some books change lives. This is one of them' Val McDermid A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published

Carol Summary

Carol: Film Tie-in by Patricia Highsmith

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose... First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

Carol Reviews

Has the drive of a thriller but the imagery of a romance ... This is a book that is hard to set aside; it demands to be read late into the night with eyes burning and heart racing * Val McDermid *
'A document of persecuted love ... perfect' * Independent *
'Gently exploratory, genuinely moving' * Mail on Sunday *
'An original, honest novel, a remarkable imaginative achievement by any standard ... compelling' * Financial Times *

About Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith is the author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Additional information

GOR010083071
9781408865675
140886567X
Carol: Film Tie-in by Patricia Highsmith
Used - Like New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20151105
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Carol