Salt, the Price Of

Arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, *The Price of Salt* is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, *The Price of Salt* may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.