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city of girls 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 personalities, 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 daily experience she craves-and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the affection of her daily experience, a affection that stands out from all the rest. Now ninety-five years old and telling her narrative at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her daily experience - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a standout affection narrative 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 delves into themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true affection. Written with a impactful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a affection narrative like no other.
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