Langbeschreibung
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMIDTherese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.
Hauptbeschreibung
First published pseudonymously in 1952 (because of its controversial gay storyline) as The Price of Salt, Carol sold nearly one million copies in the US
Kurzbeschreibung
Now a major motion picture by Todd Haynes starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara'Some books change lives. This is one of them' Val McDermidA haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published