Typewriter beach a novel [LP]
"Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and in 1950s Hollywood--in the days of the studio system and McCarthy-era scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homosexuals"--Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young act...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper Large Print,
2025.
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| Summary: | "Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and in 1950s Hollywood--in the days of the studio system and McCarthy-era scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homosexuals"--Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard 7-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio's "fixer" in a charming little Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage for a secret rendezvous. There, she is awoken by the clack and ding of a typewriter at the cottage next door. Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won't be able to sell, because he's been blacklisted. But soon he's speeding down the fog-shrouded Carmel-San Simeon highway, headed for the isolated cliffs of Big Sur, with her in the passenger seat. 2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather's cottage, finds a hidden safe with a World War II-era French passport, an old camera with film still in it, two movie scripts, and a writing Oscar that is not in her grandfather's name-raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was. In its exploration of Hollywood and Carmel-by-the-Sea, Typewriter Beach is a heartwarming tale of long-buried secrets; sisterhood and sexism; the importance of free speech, story, and name; and what it means to be family"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 466 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780063464940 0063464942 |
| Author Notes: | Her first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (now the PEN/Bellwether). She has also written The Race for Paris, The Wednesday Daughters, The Four Ms. Bradwells, and The Wednesday Sisters. (Bowker Author Biography) |
