{"product_id":"typewriter-beach-a-historical-fiction-novel-about-the-friendship-between-a-screenwriter-and-a-hollywood-actress-006342214x","title":"Typewriter Beach: A Historical Fiction Novel about the Friendship Between a Screenwriter and a Hollywood Actress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 006342214X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Clayton, Meg Waite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstant USA Today Bestseller  Washington Post 5 Works of Historical Fiction to Read This Summer  Top 10 Library Read  Los Angeles Times 10 Reads for a Beach Day  Publishers Weekly Summer Read  Womans World Book Club Pick  Zibby Books Thatll Make You Swoon  AARP Summer ReadSet in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood during its golden age, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the 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 seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studios fixer in a tiny Carmel cottage, waiting and dreading.Meanwhile, next door, Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he wont be able to sell, because hes a blacklisted screenwriter. Soon, theyre together in his roadster, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast.2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfathers cottage, finds a hidden safe full of family secrets-raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was, and whether she can live up to his name.In graceful prose and with an intimate understanding of human nature, Meg Waite Clayton captures the joys and frustrations of being a writer, being a woman, being a star, and being in love. This captivating dual timeline novel is the story of two women separated by generations-a tale of ideas and ideals, passion and persistence, creativity, politics, and family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51530872783136,"sku":"NEW006342214X","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81R9zI0ejrL.jpg?v=1777268225","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/typewriter-beach-a-historical-fiction-novel-about-the-friendship-between-a-screenwriter-and-a-hollywood-actress-006342214x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}