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What is The Price of Salt about?

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt (1952) is a tale of a love affair between a married woman and a younger, unmarried woman. Highsmith published it under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. From 1990 the novel was published under the title Carol, and in 2015 it was adapted into a film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.