{"product_id":"typewriter-beach-a-novel-1","title":"Typewriter Beach: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller · \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e 5 Works of Historical Fiction to Read This Summer · Top 10 Library Read · \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Reads for a Beach Day · \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Summer Read · \u003ci\u003eWoman’s World\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club Pick · Zibby Books That’ll Make You Swoon · AARP Summer Read\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood during its golden age, \u003ci\u003eTypewriter Beach\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1957. 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 studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage, waiting and dreading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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 a blacklisted screenwriter. Soon, they’re together in his roadster, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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":"Meg Waite Clayton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55253286027555,"sku":"9780063422148","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780063422148.jpg?v=1781817012","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/typewriter-beach-a-novel-1","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}