The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

The Price of Salt is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author - known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, Strangers on a Train - became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction.

With an autobiographical Afterword by the author, "The Price of Salt" is now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's "Lolita."