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\n"Set in Carmel-b y-the-Sea and in 1950s Hollywood-in the days of the studio system and McCa rthy-era scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homo sexuals"-Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friend ship 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 w eeks later\, she is sequestered by the studio's "fixer" in a charming litt le Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage for a secret rendezvous. There\, she is awoke n by the clack and ding of a typewriter at the cottage next door. Lé \;on 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 s oon 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 gr andfather's cottage\, finds a hidden safe with a World War II-era French p assport\, 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 abou t who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was. In its explorati on of Hollywood and Carmel-by-the-Sea\, Typewriter Beach is a heartwarming tale of long-buried secrets\; sisterhood and sexism\; the importance of f ree speech\, story\, and name\; and what it means to be family"-- Provided by publisher.
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