Carol by Patricia Highsmith Science Fiction routine eye surgery reveals the

routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife

as he works to answer a question that the British government

a kind of immortality

where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men

Burnt out and in need of retreat

Carol by Patricia Highsmith Science Fiction routine eye surgery reveals the"A great American writerHighsmith's writing is wickedit puts a spell on you." Entertainment Weekly Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic. Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol)