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City of Girls de Elizabeth Gilbert
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City of Girls (2019 original; edició 2020)

de Elizabeth Gilbert (Autor)

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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.… (més)
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Títol:City of Girls
Autors:Elizabeth Gilbert (Autor)
Informació:Penguin (2020), 496 pages
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Fun and sexy and thoughtful. ( )
  Blanket_Dragon | Jan 23, 2024 |
Vivian Morris is telling her story in a letter to the daughter of an old friend. Who this friend was and what he meant to her isn't revealed until the last 90 pages of the novel.

The story largely revolves around the lives of a group of down-at-heal theatricals under the management of Vivian's aunt Peg, in a run-down theatre in New York in the late 1930s/40s, who Vivian has taken up residence with after dropping out of college. The story is told from her old age.

I wasn't sure whether I was going to get into this novel, but ultimately the characters really drew me in. Not that I want a writer to constantly be repeating themselves, but it was so different from [The Signature of All Things] which I really loved.

Part of the problem for me at the begining, I now see, is I am not a fan of coming of age novels, which the first quarter of the book is. But as Vivian grows and becomes more interesting, and the variety of other characters, I was soon snagged.

It will be a while before we get anything new from Gilbert, as she has withdrawn the novel due to be published this year for political reasons, as it was set in Russia. ( )
  Caroline_McElwee | Jan 22, 2024 |
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. ( )
  jepeters333 | Dec 11, 2023 |
City of Girls is a guilty pleasure beach read from Elizabeth Gilbert. Her breezy easy writing style is filled with comedic elements and a rich history of NYC theater in the 1930’s-1940’s. WW11 is an important part of the novel too. This coming of age tale is wrapped in empowerment. The ending stunned me with unrelenting tears. I didn’t see that coming. The array of characters surrounding Vivian Morris are beyond loveable. Her creation of family when her somewhat cold parents fail her makes for a rewarding read. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Written as a reflection on a full life Viviann takes the reader on her life journey through the 1940's New York. Starting with her Aunt's theater company as a costume director (self appointed title) and ending up finding great joy and skill at the task that carries her through life in the garment making trade. Vivid characters that come to full life over time with the book this was one great story to expierance.

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Snort through his nose and say "Must be nice galbanting around the world, living in make believe and spending by the hundreds."
And I would think, that does sound nice.

What was going on in that theater behind closed doors? ( )
  untitled841 | Jul 3, 2023 |
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The Eat, Pray, Love author’s romp through 1940s Manhattan is a glorious, multilayered celebration of womanhood.
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The secret to falling in love so fast, of course, is not to know the person at all.
This is what flirtation is in its purest form—a whole conversation held without words. Flirtation is a series of silent questions that one person asks another person with their eyes. And the answer to those questions is always the same word:
Maybe.
Asking no further questions is the song of my people.
The dirty little whores had been disposed of; the man was allowed to remain.
Of course, I didn't recognize the hypocrisy back then.
But Lord, I recognize it now.
After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain—yet somehow, still, we carry on.
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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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