CD Audiobook
Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427282378
- ISBN: 1427282374
- ISBN: 9781427282378 (audiobook)
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Physical Description:
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
| 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
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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. |
Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Ridgefield Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ridgefield Library | FIC ROONEY (Text) | 34010140021964 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
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