Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432847661
- ISBN: 143284766X
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Physical Description:
large print
435 pages : map ; 22 cm - Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction Interpersonal relations -- Fiction Older women -- Fiction Reminiscing -- Fiction Large type books |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | LP Roon (Text) | 33294002021798 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.