![]() ![]() ![]() Highsmith also tells of replying to some of these fans, encouraging the lonely ones to seek similarly inclined people in "a larger town" ( PS 262). Readers liked the fact that her main characters Therese and Carol "were going to try to have a future together" ( PS 261). or by collapsing -alone and miserable and shunned -into a depression equal to hell" ( PS 261). 1 Defensive vanity gives way to more dignified pride when Highsmith describes the stream of fan letters, from men as well as women, thanking her for telling a story in which homosexuals did not have "to pay for their deviation by cutting their wrists, drowning themselves in a swimming pool, or by switching to heterosexuality. In the afterword to its 1990 reissue, Patricia Highsmith explains that she first published it under a pseudonym to avoid being "labelled a lesbian-book writer" she also draws attention to the fact that the novel first appeared in hardcover and received "some serious and respectable reviews" before being marketed as lesbian pulp and selling a million copies. ![]() ![]() The Price of Salt (1952) is often touted as the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. ![]()
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