03057cam a2200325 i 4500 20881935 OSt 20231005150936.0 190308s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 2019009003 19781526627544 9781594634734 (hardcover) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc PS3557.I3415 C58 2019 813.54 GIL/C Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- author. 9670 City of girls / Elizabeth Gilbert. New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. 470 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Love stories. gsafd Online version: Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- author. City of girls New York : Riverhead Books, 2019 9780698408326 (DLC) 2019011748 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 813.54 GIL/C 813.54 GIL/C 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-05 2 3 813.54 GIL/C 42769 2024-11-06 11:44:30 2024-10-24 550.00 2023-10-05 BK GR18R3 42537 42537