Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
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The work Lillian Boxfish takes a walk represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathleen Rooney
- Subject
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- City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- New York (State) -- New York
- Older women
- Older women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Reminiscing
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- City and town life
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Inspired by Margaret Fishback, poet and Macy's ad-writing phenom of the 1930s, Rooney imagines an extraordinary walk through the streets of New York City on the last night of 1984, one that triggers a flood of memories for fictional ad woman Lillian Boxfish. The octogenarian muses on the changing urban landscape as she stops at favorite haunts: an intimate neighborhood bar that's just installed a TV, a restaurant where she's dined every New Year's Eve that's about to change owners, the famed Delmonico's, where she ended her marriage. Further stops include a changing lower Manhattan landscape where she meets a haunted Vietnam veteran and engages him in a "best last-line contest," a detour to a hospital emergency room with a frightened woman about to have her first baby, and a party where she's both scorned and adored by a new generation of artists, followed by a hilarious encounter with three muggers. Meanwhile, Lillian carefully recounts her celebrated career in advertising, her adored husband and son, and her emotional breakdown. Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time-and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge the past and future
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3618.O676
- LC item number
- L55 2017b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
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