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City of Girls
- A Novel
- Lu par : Blair Brown
- Durée : 15 h et 8 min
- Catégories : Littérature, romans et fiction, Roman féminin

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An Instant New York Times Best Seller!
From the number-one best-selling 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.
"A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." (PopSugar)
"Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." (USA Today)
"Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." (TheSkimm)
"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, 19-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 89 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.
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"Blair Brown delivers a superb narration of Elizabeth Gilbert's novel, which features the recollections of a 95-year-old New York seamstress who came of age during WWII. Brown's straightforward, charming depiction illuminates the vivacious young woman the wistful elderly narrator remembers, and her conversational pacing creates vibrant pictures for the listener." (AudioFile Magazine)
"With all the conversations about sexual consent, it's risen up around the #MeToo movement... This author doesn't want us to forget there's also such a thing as female desire, the main character wants to have sex and she's not shy about hunting for it." (Whoopi Goldberg, The View "Ladies Get Lit Summer Reads 2019'")
"Delightful…Terrific characters, gorgeous clothing, great one-liners, convincing wartime atmosphere, and excellent descriptions of sex…Don't miss out on her wonderful novels any longer." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
"Gilbert takes us to New York City in the glamorous 1940s, where the sex was plentiful and showgirls just wanted to have fun." (Oprahmag.com)
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- 07/12/2019
This book is a rough diamond
This book is literally a rough diamond of feminism, a beautiful story of life, sex, social morality and real love. Elisabeth Gilbert is, once again, showing to the world how great a writer she is ! ❤️
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- Client d'Amazon
- 07/08/2019
Excellent!
I've really enjoyed this novel due to the charming characters, time and writing way. To be read!
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- Aude
- 11/07/2019
Sensible, émouvant, captivant
Magnifique roman. Les personnages sont vrais, attachants, l’histoire de Vivian Morris est bien construite, drôle, rude et triste. On y parle de résilience, de sororité, de tolérance et de de la vie dont les coups n’épargnent personne mais qui continue et peut redevenir belle. Elisabeth Gilbert a, à nouveau, écrit un livre qui fait du bien.
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- Sophie welch
- 30/10/2020
Worth the wait
The beginning is a little hard to get into it, but worth the wait.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 27/10/2020
a story that hooks you in.
i did not want this book to end. a voyage through time that gave me a lot to relate to and think about.
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- Soteriades Marina
- 04/10/2020
Beautiful
Lots of humour brave and exciting I loved the whole story. Entertaining and makes one reflect
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- Véronique
- 26/08/2020
Délicieux!
L'histoire d'une vie, et de ce fait un retour dans l'histoire aussi. Ce romain nous fait voyager dans l'espace et le temps et donne au personnage principal la place d'un membre de la famille que l'on découvrirait sur le tard.
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- Nicki Ludwig
- 05/05/2020
Beautifully written and interpreted !
I loved the story but what I truly enjoyed was Blair Brown’s interpretation, she has an amazing voice and you can imagine her reading this book, wearing one of Vivianne’s creation, gin fizz in one hand and cigarette in the other ! I have never had the pleasure to hear such a riveting performance in an audio book. Peg would be proud :)
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- Andrea van Tuyl
- 16/04/2020
Simply Perfect
Elizabeth Gilbert makes story writing, narration and dialogue seem effortless. Blair Brown tells it with the same natural flow. Elizabeth Gilbert doesn't tell a story TO you, but brings a story that is already in you, to life. Even if you've never been a 19 year old woman in NYC. Blair Brown's voice was simply perfection. I wish I had the skill of a writer to do this book justice.... I'll have to settle for 'it was wonderful'.
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- Mum 71
- 22/03/2020
Boring
Boring, superficial, badly written. I returned it. Boring, superficial, badly written. I returned it. I liked the reader.
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- Amy L. Jones
- 24/06/2019
I wanted so badly to to like it...
The performance by Blair Brown was stellar.
I wanted badly to like this story, to enjoy it and let it swallow me up like a really great audiobook can do. I have loved other Liz Gilbert books in this way - The Signature of All Things is one of my all-time favorites, for example, and of course everyone adored Eat Pray Love. However, City of Girls left something to be desired. I think, maybe, it could have been two separate stories, instead of this long and drawn out, disjointed one. In any case, I won’t stop reading your books, Liz. Anxiously awaiting whatever’s next.
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- Chris
- 14/07/2019
Never got interesting
I’ve liked Gilbert’s writing but the whole time I was wondering what the point of this story was. Seemed like it dragged out to tell a very mediocre story with a somewhat unlikeable lead. The narrator was fine, but overall disappointing.
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- Beth
- 14/06/2019
Binge Worthy
I’m newer to Audible and this was my first binge book. Gilbert writes the book as a first person narrative so it was wonderful to “hear” the protagonist rather than just read her words. I personally loved all the phases of the book for different reasons. Some parts were juicy, some harrowing, and some just beautiful. There are many one liners I rewound to hear and chuckle a few times. I listened to chapter 31 two times since finishing the book because I found the words and message to be profound.
It is a great summer read that gave me many new and multi dimensional characters to think about. Well done and satisfying!
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- Anita Kristensen
- 08/06/2019
A strong story
I don't give my devotion easily; in fact, I'm probably quite a picky reader. So it thrills me to no end to once again bestow the highest mark to Liz Gilbert for one of her books: City of Girls. I loved it! It made me cringe, and it made me cry, it made me laugh, and it made me want to move to New York City in the 1940s :) I'm so glad I got to go on this journey Liz, just like I loved the journey of The Signature of All Things.
And as Liz would say:
Onwards <3
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- Max and Kimmy
- 01/07/2019
Glitzy, Glamorous and Shallow
This book was fine. I got through in a few days, mostly because it was an easy listen with not much going on. You can tune out a bit listening to it and not really miss anything. I was a bit disappointed that we spent nearly half the book going through excruciating detail about the single year of 1941, with was frivolous and shallow for the most part, and then spend a fraction of the time going through the war years, and then get right back to the shallow frivolousness of post war Vivian and New York City. I feel like those years would have had a greater impact on Vivian. Every time something hard happens to her, it barely takes up any of the narrative and before we are right back to the happy, shallow life that she leads. It felt as though she's not learning or being affected at all by these hard times. For example, the way in which she lost her virginity didn't seem to have an impact on her (which for 100% of the women I know, no matter how it went, it had SOME sort of impact.) The book doesn't portray real life in the least, and makes Vivian come off as being empty and superficial. And the way the narrative refers to Angela, in her writing comes off as patronizing and it began hitting a nerve every time she did it (which was often!)
I also think the book could have been about 3/4 of the length, cutting way down on the 1941 bit and maybe expanding more on the character's development. Just my two cents!
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- Megan
- 20/07/2019
Beautifully written, drawn out and tedious story
I loved this book at first. The descriptions of New York are beautiful. However, The plot doesn’t seem to go very many places. It wanders around and there are some events here and there, but it’s really just a biography of this woman’s life. There is no huge mystery, there is no huge climax or turning point in the story… I ended up listening to it two times speed just to get through the rest.
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- Gilma M. Salazar
- 07/06/2019
Reader is amazing!
Gilbert did it again, start very light and funny and move to deeper levels of pure human behaviors, yes a lot sex!. Love it, Vivian is a carácter that you will love and know to the bone.
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- Ana Del Valle Brown
- 13/06/2019
Two books
First half is awesome. I felt like I was living vicariously through the main character in this 1940s experience.
Second half felt like a whole separate novel. Sullen.
The audible performance was excellent.
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- Shannon Childers
- 30/06/2019
There wasn’t a clear storyline...
I was intrigued by the characters and the character development but I just couldn’t find a real point to the story. It also felt segmented into two parts. They almost felt like unrelated stories. I couldn’t finish it.
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- Live
- 04/07/2019
Not up to expectations
This book does not live up to expectation and seems overrated. First part was ok, maybe even good. The second part was disappointing. I almost didn’t finish the book. The main character is difficult to like and the descriptions are superficial. The story lacks depth and the plot is not that interesting. I would not recommend spending time listening to this book. Find something else.
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- Heike Knorz
- 17/09/2019
Difficult start, strong end (..unfitting speaker)
The story seemed very promising, quickly became difficult to stay with. The main character seemed very self absorbed and superficial, no apparent growth as a human being. I did keep listening and about halfway through felt rewarded. The character became much stronger, the story rich and intriguing and profound.
The voice of the speaker was tough to listen to. To me it felt like 'fingernails on a chalkboard', harsh and did not fit the character at all. If i would have listened more carefully during the preview, i would have never purchased this version. I only kept listening because I was hooked on the development of the story.
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- Rose P.
- 17/10/2019
Amazing
I laughed and I cried. Thank you Elizabeth Gilbert yet again for a wonderful book full of fun, fear, truth, happiness and honesty! I loved it!
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- Hendrika van Waveren
- 14/10/2020
Too many people too little story
Altough there are many characters they all remain flat and there is no real plot . All episodes could have been told in different order just as well. And the very expicit sex scenes do mit really help the story. I really lost patience with this book.
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- Janet ann allport
- 07/10/2019
Enchanting life story
Another reason why I didn't do any housework.
Initially it appeared to be a story of girlish romps in the big city but later it unfolds into a far deeper novel telling of disappointments, emancipation and the aftereffects of war.
Unputdownable. Great Brooklyn accents too..loved it.
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- gk7710
- 25/08/2019
It just goes on and on
Für mich passiert hier zu wenig Handlung. Die Handlung die es gibt könnte sehr interessant sein, ist aber repititiv und langatmig verpackt, sodass keine Spannung aufgebaut wird. Die Erzählung laviert lange herum und anstatt gespannt darauf zu warten was als nächstes passiert fragt man sich wann das Kapitel endlich vorbei ist. Schade, von der Hörprobe ausgehend hatte ich mir mehr erhofft.
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- Madeleine
- 29/07/2019
I love this book with all my heart
I've been listening to this book on repeat since a year now. I could write a book about what I love about this book. Enough said.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 12/11/2020
Starts as city of girls and ends as city of grandma
The end of the book is a bit looooonggg and tiring . It was not a bad book , but not good aswell..
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- anniken narten
- 07/10/2020
Großartiger!
Lesegenuss von Anfang bis Ende! Auf Originalsprache gehört (durch Zufall) und begeistert von der Erzählerstimme, mitreißend! Kann ich jedem empfehlen, der Lust auf eine gute Geschichte mit Laune hat!
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 24/06/2020
Simply wonderful!
This book is another one of Elizabeth Gilbert's master pieces. I can't than suggest it to every woman who enjoys to laugh and cry over a beautiful story written with beautiful words. ♡
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- Ks338
- 22/06/2020
Loved every second of it!
Such rich writing, a great story and a reader with the perfect voice for the character!
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