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City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are."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, i

Who reads City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller?

Author

Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408867075

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Historical Romance

Rating

4.4 / 5 (40,491 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14