lillian boxfish takes a walk by kathleen rooney

'Transporting.witty, poignant and sparkling. 'Transporting.witty, poignant and sparkling.' For now, after all, the night is still young. 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. 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. 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. Literature & Fiction Contemporary Fiction Buy new: £9.05 RRP: £9.99 Details Save: £0.

The story is loosely based on the life of the American writer Margaret Fishback. 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. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is a 2017 historical novel by Kathleen Rooney. 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 was a job that, she says, 'in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.' Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. 'In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,' Lillian Boxfish writes, 'I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street.' 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 boxfish takes a walk by kathleen rooney