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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, a novel by Kathleen Rooney

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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, a novel by Kathleen Rooney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-287)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

947146232

Responsibility statement

a novel by Kathleen Rooney

Summary

"A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk... 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"--Provided by publisherLillian Boxfish took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. 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. Manhattan is grittier now, 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

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