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.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Bethel Public Library | LARGE TYPE GILBERT (Text) | 34030144194468 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ALP GIL (Text) | 33260000308677 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/GILBERT LARGE PRINT (Text) | 34029145630421 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Easton Public Library | LP GILBERT, ELIZABETH (Text) | 37777134615822 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC GILBERT,E (PBK) (Text) | 34026143934748 | Adult Large Type | Checked out | 04/23/2024 |
| Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | LP GILBERT, ELIZABETH (Text) | 34037143289512 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | LARGE PRINT GILBERT (Text) | 32518145389741 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Gil LP (Text) | 33620143589618 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | GILBERT Elizabeth (Text) | 34013143667817 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| New Milford Public Library | LP F GILBE (Text) | 34021131523488 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| 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 | - |
