02144cam a2200277 4500 419926661 TxAuBib 20200319120000.0 190607s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019022993 9780451475572 PAP 17.00 0451475577 PAP 17.00 TxAuBib Stratford, Sarah-Jane. Red letter days [BOOK] / Sarah-Jane Stratford. 1st ed. New York : Berkley, 2020. 384 pages ; 21 cm. "A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare. Nineteen-fifties America is bright and full of promise, and Phoebe Adler, a New Yorker brimming with talent and ambition, is forging her way as the rarest of things: a female television writer in Hollywood. But fears of a growing Red Menace cloud the optimism, egged on by the hate-mongering of Senator McCarthy. A blacklist is created to cast out communist sympathizers, smashing careers and ruining lives. When Phoebe finds herself caught in the hysteria's web, she flees to London. Though postwar London is struggling and work is precarious, Phoebe finds camaraderie with other Americans living in exile, including the restless and ambitious Hannah Wolfson. Determined to fight the injustices of the Red Scare, Hannah is a successful producer who hires blacklisted writers at great risk to her career and company.Together Phoebe and Hannah successfully fight unfair bias and sexism, but danger still looms in this supposed sanctuary. And when their families and friends--their very lives--are threatened, they will have to make impossible choices"-- Provided by publisher. 20200319. McCarthy, Joseph 1908-1957 Fiction. Anti-communist movements Fiction. Legislators Fiction. Political fiction. Historical fiction.