**From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of *The Dollhouse* and *The Address,* the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women's lives.**From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home--a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting up a show on Broadway has nothing to do with their art, and everything to do with politics. A Red scare is sweeping across America, and Senator Joseph McCarthy has started a witch hunt for Communists, with those in the...
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Davis, Fiona, 1966– author.
Title: The Chelsea girls : a novel / Fiona Davis.
Description: First edition. | New York : Dutton, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002424 (print) | LCCN 2019009375 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524744595 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524744588 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Blacklisting of entertainers—Fiction. | Chelsea Hotel—Fiction. | United States—Politics and government—1945–1989—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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CONTENTS
Act One
Chapter One: Hazel
Chapter Two: Hazel
Chapter Three: Maxine
Chapter Four: Hazel
Act Two
Chapter Five: Hazel
Chapter Six: Hazel
Chapter Seven: Maxine
Chapter Eight: Hazel
Chapter Nine: Hazel
Chapter Ten: Maxine
Chapter Eleven: Hazel
Chapter Twelve: Hazel
Chapter Thirteen: Maxine
Chapter Fourteen: Hazel
Chapter Fifteen: Maxine
Chapter Sixteen: Hazel
Chapter Seventeen: Hazel
Chapter Eighteen: Maxine
Chapter Nineteen: Hazel
Chapter Twenty: Maxine
Chapter Twenty-one: Hazel
Chapter Twenty-two: Maxine
Chapter Twenty-three: Hazel
Act Three
Chapter Twenty-four: Hazel
Chapter Twenty-five: Hazel
Chapter Twenty-six: Hazel
Chapter Twenty-seven: Maxine
Chapter Twenty-eight: Hazel
Chapter Twenty-nine: Hazel
PROLOGUE
New York City, March 1967
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