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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel

Rooney, Kathleen 1980- (author.). Sands, Xe, (narrator.).

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  • ISBN: 9781427282378
  • ISBN: 1427282374
  • ISBN: 9781427282378 (audiobook)
  • Physical Description: 8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
    sound disc
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017]

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by Xe Sands.
Summary, etc.: "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, 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 ten 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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Subject: City and town life New York (State) New York Fiction
Interpersonal relations Fiction
Older women Fiction
Reminiscing Fiction
Genre: Audiobooks.

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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk : A Novel
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk : A Novel
by Rooney, Kathleen; Sands, Xe (Read by)
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk : A Novel

KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. She has been recognized as one of Newcity Lit 's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2016." Her precious work includes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Salon, The Rumpus, The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Poetry Foundation website, and the Chicago Tribune. Kathleen was named "Best Novelist" by the Chicago Reader in 2017. She is married to the novelist Martin Seay.

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