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LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK
By: Kathleen Rooney
St. Martin's Press
January 2017
On Sale: January 17, 2017
Featuring: Lillian Boxfish
304 pages
ISBN: 1250113326
EAN: 9781250113320
Hardcover
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βExtraordinaryβ¦Hilariousβ¦Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time―and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future. ―Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed) Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick βIn my reckless and undiscouraged youth,β Lillian Boxfish writes, βI worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Streetβ¦β She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macyβs to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, βin some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.β Now itβs the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. Itβs 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. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young
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