The Resource City of girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
City of girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
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The item City of girls, Elizabeth Gilbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library.
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- Summary
- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 677 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780593104361
- Label
- City of girls
- Title
- City of girls
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueMemories
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew York City
- Nineteen forties -- Fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueReminiscing in old age
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- trueRich people
- Romance fiction
- trueScandals
- Scandals -- Fiction
- trueSexuality
- trueSocial classes
- trueTheater companies
- Theaters -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueAunt and niece
- trueCity life
- Entertainers -- Fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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."
- Summary
- Eighty-nine-year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal.
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2019.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2019
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10776401
- Cataloging source
- TEFBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Theaters
- Entertainers
- Scandals
- Man-woman relationships
- Nineteen forties
- Reminiscing in old age
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- City of girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 677 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593104361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1089692782
- Label
- City of girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 677 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593104361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1089692782
Subject
- trueHistorical fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueMemories
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew York City
- Nineteen forties -- Fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueReminiscing in old age
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- trueRich people
- Romance fiction
- trueScandals
- Scandals -- Fiction
- trueSexuality
- trueSocial classes
- trueTheater companies
- Theaters -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueAunt and niece
- trueCity life
- Entertainers -- Fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueBeach Reads
- trueBest Historical Fiction 2019
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2019
- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2019
- trueRecommended by Halle Eisenman
- trueRecommended by Kimberly Burton
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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