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"Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College in 1940, 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 in...

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Main Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Penguin Audio (Firm), Penguin Random House, Playaway Digital Audio, Findaway World, LLC
Other Authors: Brown, Blair (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (TBD)
Language:English
Published: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2019]
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Children of the rich > Fiction.
Nineteen forties > Fiction.
Theaters > Fiction.
Entertainers > Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Love stories.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:"Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College in 1940, 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 funchasing showgirls to the playboy actor, a grande-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and a 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 will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, it will lead 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. 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," Vivian muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.""--
Item Description:Title from container.
"HD."
"Light."
"Penguin Audio."
Previously released by Penguin Random House LLC, ℗2019.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Physical Description:1 audio media player (approximately 15 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
ISBN:9781987163087 :
Author Notes:Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 18, 1969. She received an undergraduate degree in political science from New York University. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working odd jobs and writing short stories. Early in her career, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. An article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie Coyote Ugly.

She writes both fiction and nonfiction and her books include the short story collection Pilgrims, Stern Men, The Last American Man, Committed, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and The Signature of All Things. Her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, was adapted into a movie starring Julia Roberts. She will be featured at the Sydney Writers Festival in March 2016.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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