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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
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> Funny how a theory becomes a fact in the hands of an overanxious
publisher.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Apr 15, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Re:The Price of Salt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D.K.Holm" <dholm@cinemonkey.com>
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> > I saw a copy of Patricia Highsmith's formerly pseudonymous novel in a
> store the other day. The cover announces it as "the book that inspired
> Lolita."
> >
> > DKH
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> Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated
> Nabokov's Lolita.
> "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled
> the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's
> frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about
> this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952
> under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt
> tells the riveting 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.
> >
>
>
>
From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (41
lines) ------------------
> Funny how a theory becomes a fact in the hands of an overanxious
publisher.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Apr 15, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Re:The Price of Salt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D.K.Holm" <dholm@cinemonkey.com>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (6
> lines) -------------------
> > I saw a copy of Patricia Highsmith's formerly pseudonymous novel in a
> store the other day. The cover announces it as "the book that inspired
> Lolita."
> >
> > DKH
> --------------------------------
> Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated
> Nabokov's Lolita.
> "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled
> the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's
> frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about
> this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952
> under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt
> tells the riveting 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.
> >
>
>
>