Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

A Novel

    • 4.1 • 237 Ratings
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

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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.

“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.

Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.

“Transporting…witty, poignant and sparkling.”
People (People Picks Book of the Week)

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
January 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

AFTJLM ,

Beautiful and wonderful

I so thoroughly enjoyed this book I wanted it to keep going. Great work, I fell in love with Lillian Boxfish

Jwk1470 ,

Tedious

If you like arrogant self, self-important people, maybe you’ll relate to the main character. Otherwise you’re likely to find this book a tedious slog.

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