TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert,Elizabeth
TI  - City of girls
SN  - 9781408867051 (paperback)
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - New York
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Tailors
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Young women
KW  - Entertainers
KW  - Theaters
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. There, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian and her girlfriends mean to drink the heady highball of life itself to the last drop
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