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City of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert The inimitable Elizabeth Gilbert returns with an epic stitched across the glittering fabric of a lost New York
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fter her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll are deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, Vivian Morris is exiled by her despairing parents to New York in the summer of 1940. Appointing herself seamstress at the Lily, her unconventional Aunt Peg’s charmingly disreputable vaudeville, Vivian soon becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian means to drink the heady cocktail of life itself to the last drop. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and even harder losses to suffer, and Vivian soon understands that in New York one must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new. And shooting through the weft of her masterfully stitched story is a single iridescent thread – a not-quite-story of a man now lost, and his daughter Angela. Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been nominated for the PEN/ Hemingway Award, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Baileys Prize and the Wellcome Prize. elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz
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