Books Details
Author : Kathleen Rooney Pages : 9 pages Publisher : Macmillan Audio Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B01N8PURMX ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
It?s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk.As she
traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway
vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards,
bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be?in surprising moments of
generosity and grace. While she strolls, Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that
included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America?a career cut
short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.A love letter to city
life?however shiny or sleazy?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.
