City of girls
Gilbert, Elizabeth
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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.
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