Forbidden Love
Margaret Talbot on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” which turned an erotic obsession into literary art.
The blonde in the mink coat "seemed to give off light." Highsmith felt "odd and swimmy in the head, near to fainting yet at the same time uplifted." That night she wrote an eight-page outline: the love story that became "The Price of Salt," published under a pseudonym.