The Price of Salt: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Price of Salt runs an estimated 8.2 hours (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 8.2 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 8.2 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 61% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners who want a central love story: a solid week of commutes at 8.2 hours (estimated).
About the book
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility of happiness) which defied the lesbian pulp formula and because of the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, THE PRICE OF SALT was popular among lesbians in the 1950s. The book fell out of print but was re-issued and lives on today as a pioneering work of lesbian romance.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Price of Salt as an audiobook?
The Price of Salt runs about 8.2 hours, our estimate from its 276 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.
Is The Price of Salt free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
When was The Price of Salt first published?
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith was first published in 1952.
