by Elizabeth Gilbert · Bloomsbury Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781526619808
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«City of Girls» is the historical fiction novel by Elizabeth Gilbert, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in hardcover (512 pages, in English).
Vivian Morris is expelled from Vassar College in 1940 and moves to Manhattan with her aunt Peg, owner of the Lily Playhouse theatre. Among chorus girls, actors and writers she discovers glamour and freedom; as an old woman, she recalls how a youthful scandal and a great love led her to accept her desires and live without shame.
It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction in 2019; the first edition dates from that year.
For book clubs and lovers of period narrative with a female protagonist: desire, friendship and freedom as central themes.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
