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Stone uncovers Huxley novella
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19971019
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Actress Sharon Stone has discovered a novella by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood, and it will be made into a film, but apparently without her.
Jacob's Hands was written in 1944 but had disappeared until Stone spotted a reference to it in Isherwood's diaries.
She found the text, typed on onionskin paper, in an old trunk in the Los Angeles home of Huxley's widow. Laura Huxley said she thought the manuscript had been lost in a house fire in 1961. The novella, about a man with a healing touch and the woman he falls in love with, was written with a film in mind. It is ...
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