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《一辈子做女孩》、《万物的签名》作者伊莉莎白·吉儿伯特新长篇小说
Oprah.com、Cosmopolitan、出版人周刊、柯克斯书评、书单杂志一致赞誉
2019年备受期待的作品之一！
唯有坦然接受并勇敢为自己而活，我们才有可能拥有真正快乐、独一无二的人生。而无论这趟旅程何时开始，永远不嫌晚。
这是关于薇薇安的故事。也是那些坦然拥抱自己、勇于追求的人们，并没有因此而毁灭的故事。
1940年，薇薇安(Vivian Morris)启程前往纽约。
来自富裕家庭的她，对于学业提不起热忱、不明白这个世界期待她学会什么。「从小，他们只告诉我要努力进入这所学院，却不告诉我『为什么』。」她因缺席和成绩不佳被退学，失望的父母随后将她送往曼哈顿，与她的姑姑珮格同住。那一年她19岁。
薇薇安很美，她还是个极有天赋的裁缝，但除此之外，天真的她对世界几乎一无所知。
和丈夫分居后的珮格，独立经营莉莉剧院，薇薇安因而认识了一群挣脱常规、充满个人魅力的人物：寻欢作乐的歌舞女郎、性感男演员、贵妇女演员、多情作家、严肃的剧院经理......。她和其中一位歌舞女郎希丽亚(Celia Ray)成为亲密的朋友，薇薇安在她身上学习到关于男人、性、纽约和生活的一切，以及……一些她没有预料到的事。
当薇薇安因冲动而做出错误的决定，引发了严重的丑闻，她的世界因此天翻地覆。
如今已经九十五岁，一封恳切的来信，促使薇薇安提笔写下她高潮迭起的人生……
"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 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. "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.
伊丽莎白·吉儿伯特（Elizabeth Gilbert）
小说家、新闻记者。1969年生于康涅狄格州沃特伯里市，在纽约大学求学期间，白天上课，夜晚振笔疾书短篇故事；曾在Spin、GQ和The New York Times Magazine担任新闻记者；两度获得N ational Magazine Award 深度报道奖，她的短篇小说选集Pilgrims入选国际笔会/海明威奖决审名单；2000年，小说Stern Men登上《纽约时报》好书榜。2002年的作品The Last American Man入选美国国家图书奖与美国国家书评奖决审名单。
