Carol - Patricia Highsmith
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First published pseudonymously in 1952 as }The Price Of Salt{, }Carol{ is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of 50s New York, soon to be a feature film starring Cate Blanchett. Therese is an awkward 19-year-old sales assistant in a department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter, and the first shock of love hits
Therese 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...