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.
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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.
Hmmmm. I'm noticing a theme for this week's paperback selections.
/NTTAWWT
Claire Morgan was actually Patricia Highsmith.
I think some later editions of the book did have Highsmith's name on the cover.
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
Deb--you mean, a trend toward photo covers? *blink* *blink*
Oooh, Highsmith. I wondered why that title was familiar.
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