![]() ![]() The rights to her first novel, Strangers on a Train, published in 1950, were immediately secured by Alfred Hitchcock, who released the classic film of the same name in 1951. Always attuned to the seamier, under-the-radar side of midcentury American popular culture, she had already begun to perpetrate her own special kind of dark, secretive carnivalesque. Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt at twenty-nine, after a decade in New York City as a writer for comic books. Not even lesbians, it turns out, know what to do about lesbians. The problem is there, too, in the original novel, Highsmith’s gorgeously bipolar fantasy, a cocktail-soaked sapphic wet dream. Todd Haynes’s film Carol (2015), an adaptation of crime grande dame Patricia Highsmith’s obscure 1952 lesbian romance, The Price of Salt, while sometimes exquisite, is the latest uneasy-making case in point. ![]() ![]() NO ONE HAS KNOWN what to do about lesbians for a very long time. ![]()
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