Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
Language
eng
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maps
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no index present
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fiction
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
Oclc number
970396407
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Kathleen Rooney
Series statement
Thorndike Press large print core
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
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- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Reminiscing
- FICTION + Literary
- FICTION + Contemporary Women
- City and town life
- Large type books
- Interpersonal relations + Fiction
- Older women
- Large type books
- Biographical fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
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- Classification3
- Creator1
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- Subject18
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Reminiscing
- FICTION + Literary
- FICTION + Contemporary Women
- City and town life
- Large type books
- Interpersonal relations + Fiction
- Older women
- Large type books
- Biographical fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Mapped to1