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Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-
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City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
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Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
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Lillian
Boxfish
takes
a
walk
/ Kathleen Rooney.
by
Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-
St. Martin's Press, c2017.
Call #:
FICTION ROO
Subjects
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250151162 (2018 Picador trade pbk.)
9781250137609 (trade pbk.)
9781250113320 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 287 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick "In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,"
Lillian
Boxfish
writes, "I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street..." She 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
, 85 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.
Lillian
figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young"--From publisher.
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