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City of girls :
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Audio disc
Physical Description 
12 audio discs (approximately 15 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition 
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information 
[New York, NY] : Penguin Audio : Books on Tape, [2019]
Summary 
Eighty-nine-year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal.
Call Number 
AUDIOBOOK CD F GILBERT
Publication Date 
2019
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781984888464 9781984888488
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by 
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Format: 
eBook
Electronic Format: 
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor 
Libby
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by 
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Format: 
eAudiobook
Electronic Format: 
LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
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Libby
City of girls
Format: 
Books
Physical Description 
470 pages ; 24 cm
Production / Publication Information 
New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Summary 
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.
Call Number 
F GILBERT
Publication Date 
2019
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781594634734 9781594634741
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City of girls
Format: 
Large print
Physical Description 
677 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Edition 
First large print edition.
Production / Publication Information 
[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2019]
Summary 
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.
Call Number 
LP GILBERT
Publication Date 
2019
Language 
English
ISBN 
9780593104361
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