Large Print Material
City of girls
Record details
- ISBN: 0593104366
- ISBN: 9780593104361
- ISBN: 0593104366 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780593104361 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780593104361
- ISBN: 0593104366
- Physical Description: 677 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2019]
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 3 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Young women Fiction Theaters Fiction Entertainers Fiction Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Large type books |
| Genre: | Fiction. Large type books. Romance fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 16 of 17 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | LP FIC GIL (Text) | 36123132914225 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC GILBERT L.T. ed. (Text) | 34025144324461 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Putnam Public Library | GILBERT (Text) | 33610148423608 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Ridgefield Library | LP F GILBERT (Text) | 34010154162167 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Southbury Public Library | GILBERT/LP (Text) | 34019145877007 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Thomaston Public Library | LP FIC GILBERT (Text) | 34020142195237 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Woodbury Public Library | LP FIC GILBERT (Text) | 34018143909184 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
City of Girls : A Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 18, 1969. She received an undergraduate degree in political science from New York University. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working odd jobs and writing short stories. Early in her career, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. An article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie Coyote Ugly. She writes both fiction and nonfiction and her books include the short story collection Pilgrims, Stern Men, The Last American Man, Committed, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and The Signature of All Things. Her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, was adapted into a movie starring Julia Roberts. She will be featured at the Sydney Writers Festival in March 2016. (Bowker Author Biography)
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