{"product_id":"lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-9781250151162","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e(People Picks Book of the Week) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Prescient and quick....A perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Extraordinary...hilarious...Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time--and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred and boxed) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRooney's delectably theatrical fictionalization is laced with strands of tart poetry and emulates the dark sparkle of Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Truman Capote. Effervescent with verve, wit, and heart, Rooney's nimble novel celebrates insouciance, creativity, chance, and valor.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,\" \u003c\/i\u003eLillian Boxfish writes, \u003ci\u003e \"I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, \u003ci\u003eLillian Boxfish Takes a Walk\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250151162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Kathleen Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648636088476,"sku":"9781250151162","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1f246e0f-4b79-4ed0-837e-e5cda3e8aa08.jpg?v=1603870605","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-9781250151162","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}