Thursday, July 23, 2015

PaperBack

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Claire Morgan (Patricia Highsmith), The Price of Salt, Bantam, 1958

7 comments:

Todd Mason said...

Wow. That front cover is the best I've seen for this novel, in all the editions I've seen, old and new. The back cover blurb, with its obsession with the "problem" of lesbianism (and of course coyly hinting about that "problem," so as to have the girlfriends and eat them, too) is rather, well, problematic, if too obviously of its time (notable that the novel only sees a Problem in the reactions others might have to their affair, and the insecurities both bring to the coupling up--less intrinsic to their orientation than simply a coincident fact, not helped by the potential for discovery and scandal.

Deb said...

Hmmmm. I'm noticing a theme for this week's paperback selections.

/NTTAWWT

Matthew said...

Claire Morgan was actually Patricia Highsmith.

Deb said...

I think some later editions of the book did have Highsmith's name on the cover.

Todd Mason said...

ALL the later editions, essentially, do. At least the later ones since her death.

Spring Fire by Marijane Meaker writing as Vin Packer; The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith writing as Claire Morgan

Todd Mason said...

Deb--you mean, a trend toward photo covers? *blink* *blink*

Gerard said...

Oooh, Highsmith. I wondered why that title was familiar.