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女孩之城

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內容簡介 《享受吧！一個人的旅行》作者伊莉莎白．吉兒伯特重回小說文壇之新作！ 人生稍縱即逝又充滿危險，沒有必要將享受拒之門外，或者否認自己原有的樣子。 1940年，19歲的Vivian Morris被父母親送到紐約和阿姨同住，阿姨是一家劇場的老闆，Vivian在劇場裡認識了一群脫離社會常規的人，有喜歡尋歡作樂的展場女孩、性感的男演員、地位崇高的女演員、所有女人都愛的作家和劇場經理，還單純的Vivian深深陷入這些人的魅力之中。 不久後Vivian卻因為自己的失誤，讓自己的生活變得混亂不堪，當下的她卻沒有意識到自己的命運，即將出現翻天覆地的改變…… 以《享受吧！一個人的旅行》躋身暢銷作家的伊莉莎白．吉兒伯特，以紐約為背景的小說新作講述一個以女性性慾為主題的愛情故事，其中對於戰爭期間的氛圍、性愛的描寫相當精采，吉兒伯特對於場景架構的能力在故事中一覽無遺，讀者將會在故事中看到更精采的吉兒伯特。 From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person. "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. 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 ninety-five 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." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Elizabeth GilbertElizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love, as well as several other internationally bestselling books. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a best book of 2013 by The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine,The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker.

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