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Soon to be a major feature film starring Cate Blanchett

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID
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...
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.

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Patricia Highsmith (geboren am 19.1.1921, Fort Worth/Texas, gestorben 4.2.1995, Locarno, begraben in Tegna/Tessin) wuchs in Texas und New York auf. Studium der Literatur und Zoologie. Erste Kurzgeschichten an der Highschool, erster Lebensunterhalt als Comictexterin, erster Welterfolg 1950 mit ihrem Romanerstling "Zwei Fremde im Zug", dessen Verfilmung durch Alfred Hitchcock sie über Nacht weltberühmt machte.

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