{"product_id":"typewriter-beach-meg-waite-clayton-9780063422087","title":"Typewriter Beach","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\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eToday Show \u003c\/i\u003eBest Historical Fiction for August\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, \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 been blacklisted. 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 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. \u003ci\u003eTypewriter Beach\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meg Waite Clayton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063422085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063422087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Meg Waite Clayton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112793452799,"sku":"9780063422087","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5f3e24f-0bb3-4973-a19e-0537aeb39c4f.jpg?v=1769610980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/typewriter-beach-meg-waite-clayton-9780063422087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}