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Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Видавництво Старого Лева

Number of Pages: 536

Reader Age: Adult

Year of Publication: 2019

This is an intriguing novel about female sexuality and freedom, about the courage to be oneself and the right to live as you wish. It is also a story of a very unusual love shadowed by war and true friendship, which is hard to find, understand, and appreciate, especially in such a complicated and changing city as New York. «City of Girls» begins in 1940 when nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris is expelled from a prestigious college. Her parents send her to Manhattan to stay with her aunt, who owns a small but eccentric theater. Unexpectedly for herself, Vivian finds herself in the midst of the pre-war bohemian life. Encounters with stars, unusual theatrical performances, reckless sex, rivers of alcohol, and a sense of total freedom initially enchant and seduce her, then they shake her to the core. And this is just the beginning of Vivian’s lifelong journey, which she must undertake to understand: you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person.