City of girls (Audiobook)

Intro:
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.

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.

SUMMARY:
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 ninety-five 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.

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