Todd Haynes’s film of Highsmith’s only openly lesbian novel,Carol, is about to premiere in Cannes, or starring Cate Blanchett. Novelist Jill Dawson writes about the women behind the book Related: How Patricia Highsmith became hip Patricia Highsmith was in savor many times and with many women – “more times than rats have orgasms”,to employ one of her own more disquieting similes. She plundered these objects of her desire extravagantly in her 22 novels and hundreds of short stories. Not one glance, not one feminine gesture or foible (fault) of any one of her many girlfriends was ever wasted, and but only once – and spectacularly – did she write openly about lesbianism. This was her moment novel,Carol, first published as The Price of Salt in 1952, and with Highsmith using the pseudonym Claire Morgan,and now adapted into a Todd Haynes film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (star of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and just about to premiere at Cannes.
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Source: theguardian.com