All Eagle Valley Library District locations will be closed on Sunday, March 31. Regular library hours will resume Monday, April 1​.

City of Girls: A Novel
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(7)
4 star
 
(18)
3 star
 
(3)
2 star
 
(1)
1 star
 
(0)
Published:
Books on Tape 2019
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781984888495
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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.
"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, 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.
Also in This Series
Formats
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
OverDrive Listen
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
More Details
Street Date:
06/04/2019
Language:
English
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Gilbert. (2019). City of Girls: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Gilbert. 2019. City of Girls: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2019.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Gilbert. City of Girls: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2019.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection1917
Eagle Valley Library District00
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
bdf5c3a3-2df9-ead1-7de4-823c49113c7d
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
May 20, 2019 14:49:55
Date Updated:
Oct 30, 2020 07:36:13
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 25, 2024 16:18:52
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 24, 2024 08:41:04
Last Availability Check:
Mar 25, 2024 16:18:57
Last Availability Change:
Mar 04, 2024 08:19:26
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 28, 2024 20:38:41

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/7B4/3B1/03/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/7B4/3B1/03/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9781984888471
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781984888495
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9781984888471
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781984888495
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
mediaType
Audiobook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Elizabeth Gilbert
title
City of Girls
dateAdded
2019-07-02T15:30:00-04:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=162&titleID=4322813
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Marmot Library Network (CO)
          • id: 1201
sortTitle
City of Girls A Novel
crossRefId
4322813
subtitle
A Novel
id
7b43b103-1a91-4b33-b10d-4dc2a11446f3
starRating
3.9

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • duration: 15:15:37
      • fileName: CityofGirls_9781984888471_4322813
      • partCount: 12
      • fileSize: 436188648
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9781984888471
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781984888495
      • rights:
            • type: PlayOnPC
            • value: 1
            • type: PlayOnPCCount
            • value: -1
            • type: BurnToCD
            • value: 1
            • type: BurnToCDCount
            • value: -1
            • type: PlayOnPM
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToNonSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferCount
            • value: -1
            • type: CollaborativePlay
            • value: 0
            • type: PublicPerformance
            • value: 0
            • type: TranscodeToAAC
            • value: 1
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • onSaleDate: 6/4/2019
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4322813-CityOfGirls.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b43b103-1a91-4b33-b10d-4dc2a11446f3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • duration: 15:08:37
      • fileName: CityofGirlsANovel-66645
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 436140825
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9781984888471
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781984888495
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 6/4/2019
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4322813-CityOfGirls.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b43b103-1a91-4b33-b10d-4dc2a11446f3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Gilbert, Elizabeth
      • bioText: Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, and several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction. Gilbert began her career writing for Harper’s Bazaar, Spin, the New York Times Magazine, and GQ, and was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The follow-up memoir Committed became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a Best Book of 2013 by the New York Times, O Magazine, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the New Yorker. Gilbert’s short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Story, One Story, and the Paris Review. Her new novel, City of Girls, will be released June 2019.

        Blair Brown won a Tony Award for her performance in Copenhagen. She received an Ace Award and five Emmy nominations for The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. She is a an accomplished narrator for BOT, including recordings of Last Kiss by Luanne Rice and The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller.
      • name: Elizabeth Gilbert
      • role: Narrator
      • fileAs: Brown, Blair
      • name: Blair Brown
imprint
Penguin Audio
publishDate
2019-06-04T00:00:00-04:00
edition
Unabridged
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
City of Girls
fullDescription
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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.
"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, 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.
popularity
10890
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1ByAAAAA2r/products/7b43b103-1a91-4b33-b10d-4dc2a11446f3/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
7b43b103-1a91-4b33-b10d-4dc2a11446f3
starRating
3.9
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/7B4/3B1/03/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/7B4/3B1/03/{7B43B103-1A91-4B33-B10D-4DC2A11446F3}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDateText
06/04/2019
mediaType
Audiobook
shortDescription
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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.
"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),...
sortTitle
City of Girls A Novel
crossRefId
4322813
awards
      • source: Audio Publishers Association
      • value: Audie Award
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Books on Tape
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC044000
      • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
      • code: FIC045000
      • description: Fiction / Family Life / General