This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a brief introduction to the history of lesbian literature. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in...
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The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Book Analysis)
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801629250EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a brief introduction to the history of lesbian literature. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patricia Highsmith
Presentation of The Price of Salt
Summary of The Price of Salt
Character study
Therese Belivet
Carol Aird
Analysis of The Price of Salt
A story based on Highsmith’s own experience
A step forward for lesbian pulp fiction
Coming of age
A love story
About The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt follows Therese Belivet, a naïve, inexperienced 19-year-old woman who is working in a department store when she meets Carol Aird, an older, extremely glamorous woman who is in the process of divorcing her husband. In spite of their apparent differences and the pervasive homophobia of the America of the 1950s, love soon begins to blossom between the two women, and they find themselves risking everything to be together.
The Price of Salt was initially published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan in 1952, before being reissued as Carol under Highsmith’s own name almost three decades later. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in 2015.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a brief introduction to the history of lesbian literature. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patricia Highsmith
Presentation of The Price of Salt
Summary of The Price of Salt
Character study
Therese Belivet
Carol Aird
Analysis of The Price of Salt
A story based on Highsmith’s own experience
A step forward for lesbian pulp fiction
Coming of age
A love story
About The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt follows Therese Belivet, a naïve, inexperienced 19-year-old woman who is working in a department store when she meets Carol Aird, an older, extremely glamorous woman who is in the process of divorcing her husband. In spite of their apparent differences and the pervasive homophobia of the America of the 1950s, love soon begins to blossom between the two women, and they find themselves risking everything to be together.
The Price of Salt was initially published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan in 1952, before being reissued as Carol under Highsmith’s own name almost three decades later. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in 2015.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.application/pdf1
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This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Patricia Highsmith
- Presentation of The Price of Salt
- Summary of The Price of Salt
- Character study
- Therese Belivet
- Carol Aird
- Analysis of The Price of Salt
- A story based on Highsmith’s own experience
- A step forward for lesbian pulp fiction
- Coming of age
- A love story
About The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt follows Therese Belivet, a naïve, inexperienced 19-year-old woman who is working in a department store when she meets Carol Aird, an older, extremely glamorous woman who is in the process of divorcing her husband. In spite of their apparent differences and the pervasive homophobia of the America of the 1950s, love soon begins to blossom between the two women, and they find themselves risking everything to be together.
The Price of Salt was initially published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan in 1952, before being reissued as Carol under Highsmith’s own name almost three decades later. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in 2015.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808016292 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 50 |
| File size | 2.1 MB |
