Typewriter beach: a novel

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Clayton, Meg Waite

Clayton, Meg Waite

Adult Fiction

WCPL - Adult Fiction

"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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Fiction

Fiction

CLAYTON

2 Months
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Six Months
Year

Wake County Public Libraries

9780063422148

2025

Harper

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Blacklisting of entertainers -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
Screenwriters -- Fiction

Typewriter beach : a novel

Typewriter beach : a novel / Meg Waite Clayton

Typewriter beach

a novel

Blacklisting of entertainers
Motion picture actors and actresses
Nineteen fifties
Screenwriters