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City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert

City of Girls

von Elizabeth Gilbert

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.

"A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." - PopSugar

"Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today

"Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm

"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, 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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New York, Vierziger Jahre. Der Krieg grollt nur ganz in der Ferne. Vivian, 19,  wird von ihrer begüterten Familie aus der Provinz zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante Peg nach New York geschickt. Diese leitet ein heruntergekommenes Theater, und Vivian lernt ein völlig anderes Leben kennen im...

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City of girls

Vivian, die Tochter aus gutem Hause, zieht in den 1940er Jahren nach New York zu ihrer Tante. Untertags arbeitet sie als Kostümbildnerin im Theater ihrer Tante, doch nachts genießt die junge Frau das schillernde Großstadtleben und alles was dazu gehört. Vivian stürzt sich in zahlreiche Affären und gibt ihrem Wunsch nach Freiheit nach. Doch dabei geht sie eines Tages zu weit und sie riskiert damit ihren guten Ruf und letztendlich landet sie wieder in der Provinz bei ihrer Familie. Erst später...

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Art:
Hardcover
Genre:
Romane und Erzählungen
Sprache:
englisch
Umfang:
470 Seiten
ISBN:
9781594634734
Erschienen:
Juni 2019
Verlag:
Penguin LCC US
7.66667
Eigene Bewertung: Keine
Durchschnitt: 3.9 (3 Bewertungen)

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