La autora de Come, reza, ama vuelve con una deliciosa novela llena de aventuras, glamur y pasi n por la vida sobre una joven que descubre que no hay que ser una buena chica para ser una buena persona.

En el verano de 1940, Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan tan solo con una maleta y una m quina de coser. Su especial talento la convertir en la modista estrella del Lily Playhouse, el teatro de variedades de dudosa reputaci n de su t a Peg. Los d as en Nueva York son de todo menos aburridos a pesar de la guerra. En esta ciudad de mujeres, Vivian y sus amigas buscan ser libres y beberse la vida hasta la ltima gota. Pero Vivian tambi n descubrir que le quedan lecciones que aprender y errores que cometer, y que para vivir la vida que desea tendr que reinventarsea cada paso. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Oprah.com, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, GoodReads, PureWow, Vulture, The Millions and more. "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