Inhalt:______________ **A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** **A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM** ______________ 'Stunning' - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN 'Warm and wise' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer 'Glamorous, sexy, compelling' - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times 'I fell in love with Vivian from page one' - Daisy Buchanan 'An education in love, and an iridescent delight' - Rowan Pelling, Spectator ______________ New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play - that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it's ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning. City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship - and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong. ______________ 'There is so much to love in City of Girls' - Independent 'Wherever Liz Gilbert goes, we'll follow' - Oprah magazine, Best book releases 'Sensational' - Cosmopolitan 'As bubbly as a champagne cocktail but with a real kick in the tail' - Sunday Express 'Explores female desire in a radically refreshing way' - independent.co.uk 'Brilliant on female friendship, desire and the influence a good mentor can bring to enrich a young woman's life' - Grazia Summer Reads Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-4088-6707-5
Inhalt: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. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-698-40832-6
Inhalt: Nach ihrem Weltbestseller Eat, Pray, Love meldet sich Elizabeth Gilbert mit einem großen Roman zurück. "Das Wesen der Dinge" und der Liebe erzählt die Geschichte von Alma Whittaker, einer Frau, die sich den Pflanzen verschrieb, die Naturgesetze erforschte und versuchte, das Wesen der Liebe zu ergründen. Am Ende ihres Lebens wird Alma auf ein großes Jahrhundert zurückblicken. Sie wird in die Aufbruchsphase Amerikas geboren, die Welt wird erforscht und erobert, Altes durch Neues abgelöst. Ihr umtriebiger Vater ist mit Pflanzenhandel reich geworden und der jungen Alma wird es an nichts fehlen, auch nicht an Bildung. Und so wächst sie zwischen den Pflanzen der prächtigen Gewächshäuser heran. Ihre ganze Leidenschaft gilt der Natur, und während ihrer Studien, die sie ihr ganzesLeben begleiten, gelingen ihr ähnlich revolutionäre Einsichten, wie sie dann Charles Darwin der Welt vorführen wird. Doch Alma selbst zweifelt an ihren Erkenntnissen. Gibt es eine wissenschaftliche Erklärung, warum sich der Mensch nach Liebe sehnt? Was ist Liebe überhaupt? Warum sind wir selbstlos und uneigennützig, wie ihre Adoptivschwes - ter Prudence, die schon früh sich für die Befreiung der Sklaven einsetzt? Alma wird Antworten finden, ebenso wie die Liebe. Schlagworte:Amsterdam, Entdeckungsreise, Liebe, London, Mädchen, Peru, Philadelphia, Reisen, Tahiti Systematik: Historischer Roman Umfang: 701 S. Standort: GIL ISBN: 978-3-8270-1156-5
Inhalt: Elizabeth ist Anfang dreißig und hat eine schmerzvolle Scheidung hinter sich. Sie steht vor dem Nichts und beschließt, alles, was sie bisher hatte, in New York zurückzulassen und ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Sie verbringt vier Monate in Rom, lernt italienisch, genießt das Leben und vor allem das gute Essen. Es folgen vier weitere Monate in einem indischen Ashram, wo sie sich in endlosen Meditationen übt. In Bali schließlich erfährt sie die glückliche Balance zwischen innerem und äußerem Glück. Mit Selbstironie, Charme und Intelligenz erzählt die Autorin von ihrer Reise durch die Welt und zu sich selbst. Eine ehrliche und bewegende Selbsterfahrungsgeschichte für alle, die mutig Verantwortung für sich selbst übernehmen wollen. Schlagworte:Frau, Indien, Indonesien, Italien, Reise, Scheidung, russisch Systematik: Qr Umfang: 368 S. Standort: Qr GIL ISBN: 978-5-386-00210-7
Inhalt: A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed
Look out for Elizabeth Gilbert's new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, on sale now!
In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. 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 gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction-into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist-but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.
Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe-from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who-born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution-bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers. A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Schlagworte:Englisch Systematik: Qe Umfang: 624 S. Standort: Qe GIL ISBN: 978-0-14-312655-3
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