The Price of Salt

Claire Morgan a Patricia Highsmith

Arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is the story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Ai...rd, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.
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Zatiaľ čo film Carol som videla už v roku jeho vydania, teda v roku 2015, kniha od Patricie Highsmith, pôvodne nazvaná Cena [...] The post Carol / Film VS Kniha appeared first on .

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Tak jsem dumala nad tím, čím bych teď knihoblogerském vesmíru takhle zkraje podzimu mohla přispět a nenapadlo mě nic lepšího, než dát do kupy tipy na knihy, které se podle mě nejkrásněji čtou právě v tomhle období. Ještě máte trošku času, než se zbaví listí a ranní mlhy se ukážou v plné kráse, tak si koukejte pořídit co nejvíc příběhů z tohoto seznamu, protože dámy a pánové, tímto se s vámi[...]

Arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is the story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.