The Resource Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250113320
- Label
- Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
- Title
- Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathleen Rooney
- Subject
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- City and town life
- City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Older women
- Older women -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Reminiscing
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Women poets
- New York (State) -- New York
- Biographical fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rooney, Kathleen
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City and town life
- Interpersonal relations
- Older women
- Reminiscing
- Interpersonal relations
- Older women
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- City and town life
- Interpersonal relations
- Older women
- Reminiscing
- Women poets
- New York (State)
- Label
- Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-287)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 947146232
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250113320
- Lccn
- 2016036418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)947146232
- Label
- Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-287)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 947146232
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250113320
- Lccn
- 2016036418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)947146232
Subject
- City and town life
- City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Older women
- Older women -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Reminiscing
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Women poets
- New York (State) -- New York
- Biographical fiction
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