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Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk: A Novel by Kathleen Rooney - Trade Paperback - Contemporary Fiction
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On New Year's Eve 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish—once the highest paid woman in advertising—crosses Manhattan on foot, finding adventure at every turn and recalling a remarkable life.
Lillian Boxfish took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.”
Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, eighty-five years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It's chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not.
A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.
• National Indie Bestseller
• With deckled edge and French flaps
Product details
Data sheet
- Article
- 100000139262
- Author Name
- Kathleen Rooney
- Publisher
- Macmillan Us
- Origin
- Imported
- Book Format
- Trade Paperback
- Weight
- 0.27kg
- Length
- 20.83cm
- Width
- 14.48cm
- Height
- 2.03cm
- Year Released
- 2018
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780062388179
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Translator
- English