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Title: CarolAuthor: Patricia Highsmith
Published: 1952
Language: English
Pages: 320
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Therese, a nineteen year old working in a department store in New York, meets a beautiful, alluring woman while at work and feels her very first shock of love and soon finds herself entangled in Carols world.
Review:
I'm really happy that I finally got around to reading this; it's a book I've had on my radar for ages and it was very much worth getting to.
I love the setting of this story, the atmosphere and the way the book captures the time period; I could really picture all of it and it works as an excellent backdrop for this story. I really liked getting to know these two women and seeing them fall in love; it was beautiful and sometimes a little sad. It was also really interesting to read about a lesbian relationship set in this time period.
I think the authors writing is solid; it pays a lot of attention to detail and it's at times quite lyrical. Sometimes there were bits of dialogue that felt a bit off to me, but otherwise it was great. There's a lot of emotion and sensitivity to the writing and I really liked that.
That being said, I was not as invested and engrossed in this as I thought I was going to be and I don't really know why that is. It might just be because I generally don't love romance novels and even though I think this is one of the better ones I've read, there was still something in it that didn't quite capture me.
Overall though, this is a modern classic well worth the read.
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