City
of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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AN
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From
the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of
All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young
woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
"A
spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." -
PopSugar
"Intimate
and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today
"Pairs
well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm
"Life is both fleeting and
dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being
anything other than what you are."
Beloved author Elizabeth
Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City
theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as
she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly
pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity,
as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old
Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her
lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to
Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown
theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire
cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing
showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and
no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that
results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways
that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads
her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of
freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a
love that stands out from all the rest.
Now eighty-nine years old and
telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered
the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached
it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed
all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever
she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and
connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
Product
details
File Size :
1767 KB
Print Length : 480 pages
Publisher :
Riverhead Books (June 4, 2019)
Publication Date : June 4, 2019
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
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Language : English
ASIN : B07HZ2Q1MK
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