Carol: The Price of Salt Free Audiobook Download by Patricia Highsmith

The novel was written in the 1950's and centers around a married couple and the wife's affair with a co-worker. The book is famous for its provocative and controversial subject matter, as well as its complex characters. Cassie Campbell does an amazing job of voicing it.

"Carrying her own, she had to pay a quarter; and she put it in the slot of the old woman who was doing the reading." This sentence is slightly different from the original. In Highsmith's novel, Carol puts her change in gesture-tracing letters on the wall of her lover's apartment.

This audiobook is about a woman's obsession with her married lover, Carol. The audiobook begins with the narrator, newly married and pregnant, meeting Carol for the first time. She is surprised to find that she admires his intelligence and ability to keep up with her. They begin a secret affair which quickly devolves into something more sinister. The narrator eventually becomes obssessed with Carol and even kidnaps their son in an attempt to get closer to him. This audiobook is available in both English and Spanish languages.

The Price of Salt is a story of a woman who loves a man that she knows she shouldn't. The narrator, Carol, is married to someone else but finds herself drawn to the charismatic Willy. In order to protect her husband and her family, she decides to marry Mr. Davis and become his mistress. Ultimately, the novel ends with Carol confronting her decision while attempting suicide in the mental institution where she has been institutionalized since she tried to kill herself after only four days of marriage with Willy.

Patricia Highsmith's novel, Carol: The Price of Salt was originally released in 1952 and is being made into a motion picture next year. This is a book many will find very relevant to their current life as society becomes more conscious of health and its importance when it comes to food choices.

The Price of Salt is Patricia Highsmith's first novel. It tells the story of an aspiring actress, who has just been offered a role in a Broadway play, finds herself being seduced by a much older man. The book strays from its original title, Carol, and is considered by many critics as one of the most important novels of the second half of the 20th century.