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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE FICTION ROON (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Physical Description

437 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.

Summary

Lillian Boxfish took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. Manhattan is grittier now, but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed-- and has not.

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