num_pages: 287
description: Its 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-bein 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 Americaa career cut short by marriage motherhood divorce and a breakdown.A love letter to city lifehowever shiny or sleazyLillian 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.
language: English
title: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
publisher: St. Martin's Press