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(0)Elizabeth Gilbert
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 285 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Gilbert and the man she falls in love with, find themselves wandering all over Southeast Asia when he is kicked out of the U.S. by immigration officials. As they await permission to return home, Gilbert searches for wisdom, advice and perspective on the subject of romantic commitment.
