03794cam a2200505 i 4500 26852 26852 1089884084 OCoLC 20191022130411.0 190308t20192019nyu 000 f eng 2019009003 9781594634734 (hardcover) 1594634734 (hardcover) 9780698408326 (electronic book) (OCoLC)1089884084 AJM pcc n-us-ny Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97043355 author 3002 City of girls / Elizabeth Gilbert New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019 ©2019 470 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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." --Book jacket Young women Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114026 3003 Children of the rich Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100487 3004 Nineteen forties http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005467 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 3005 Theaters http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134578 Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 3006 Entertainers Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125040 3007 Reminiscing in old age Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110352 3008 Entertainers. fast (OCoLC)fst00912655 3009 Theaters. fast (OCoLC)fst01149370 3010 Young women. fast (OCoLC)fst01183301 1963 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107238 3011 New York (State) New York Manhattan. fast (OCoLC)fst01312688 3012 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 48 Historical fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726640 129 Romance fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01921732 51 Novels. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 50 Online version: Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- author. City of girls New York : Riverhead Books, 2019 9780698408326 (DLC) 2019011748 .b156590104 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2019-10-22 28.00 2 GILB 49209 2024-03-12 2024-02-23 2019-10-22 BOOK