ker-razy

Having finally finished Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley (approximately one billion times better than the movie), and beginning to question the artistic validity of Ulrich Haarburste's Roy Orbison Wrapped in Clingfilm, the next book in my queue, I went back to Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia entry to get suggestions for other novels to read.

Meh ...

Enh ...

WHAT?!

Highsmith included homosexual overtones in many of her novels and addressed the theme directly in The Price of Salt and the posthumously published Small g: a Summer Idyll. The former novel is known for its happy ending, the first of its kind in homosexual/lesbian fiction. Published in 1953 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, it sold almost a million copies. The inspiration for the book's main character, Carol, was a woman Highsmith saw in Bloomingdales, where she worked at the time. Highsmith found out her address from the credit card details, and on two occasions after the book was written (in June 1950 and January 1951) spied on the woman without the latter's knowledge.

Price of Salt it is, then.