by Patricia Highsmith · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434589919
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«Carol» is the romantic novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Salvat in 1994, in paperback (257 pages, in Spanish).
Therese is a young set designer working as a salesgirl when she meets Carol, an elegant divorced woman who comes in to buy a doll for her daughter. That encounter sparks a romance between them, narrated with Patricia Highsmith's suspense and with the fragility of happiness as a backdrop.
The novel was originally published in 1952 as «The Price of Salt», under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, and appeared under Patricia Highsmith's name in 1989.
For readers of romance and suspense novels, especially those interested in love stories between women and in a classic of LGBT literature.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
