Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 437 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core series.
Subjects:
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781410499660 (large print : hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Rooney | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
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"A novel"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-434).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-434).