03412cam a2200541 4500 1967289302 TxAuBib 20250226120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250113337 1250113334 B01HMNEXUA Amazon 780d0649-b64c-4eaf-baeb-2ee70581985c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2830329 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rooney, Kathleen. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk [Libby eBook] : A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 714kB. contemporary literary fiction. inspired by margaret fishback. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. successful career women. older female character. Advertising industry. Madison Avenue. christmas gift. dual timelines. cathleen roony. working women. Women Authors. new york city. elderly women. mad men era. Historical. Manhattan. feminist. Jazz Age. 1930s. 1980s. poet. HTML:<p><b>NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER</b><br /> <b>A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, <i>Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</i> 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.</b><br /> <i>"In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,"</i> Lillian Boxfish writes, <i>"I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street..."</i><br /> 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."<br /> 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.<br /> Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.<br /> "Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling."<br /> —<i>People</i> (People Picks Book of the Week)</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-02-25 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=780d0649-b64c-4eaf-baeb-2ee70581985c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=780d0649-b64c-4eaf-baeb-2ee70581985c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)