Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
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Contributors:
Sands, Xe, narrator.
Published:
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017].
Format:
CD Audiobook
Edition:
Unabridged.
Physical Desc:
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status:

Description

"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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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781427282378, 1427282374, 9781427282378
UPC:
9781427282378

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Title from container.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Xe Sands.
Description
"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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Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Rooney, K., & Sands, X. (2017). Lillian Boxfish takes a walk. Unabridged. Macmillan Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands. 2017. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Macmillan Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Macmillan Audio, 2017.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen and Xe Sands. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Unabridged. Macmillan Audio, 2017.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

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