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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk audiobook
- By: Kathleen Rooney
- Narrator: Xe Sands
- Category: Biographical, Fiction
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 17, 2017
- Language: English
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Audiobook Summary
“Between author Rooney’s story and narrator Xe Sands’s craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet…Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian’s personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it.” — AudioFile Magazine
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A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian 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.
“In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street…”
She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.”
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. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now–her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl–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.
Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.
“Transporting…witty, poignant and sparkling.”
—People (People Picks Book of the Week)
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Audiobook Narrator
Xe Sands is the narrator of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk audiobook that was written by Kathleen Rooney
KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. She has been recognized as one of Newcity Lit’s “Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2018.” Her previous work includes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Salon, The Rumpus, The Nation, the Poetry Foundation website, and the Chicago Tribune. Kathleen was named “Best Novelist” by the Chicago Reader in 2017. She is married to the novelist Martin Seay.
About the Author(s) of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Full Details
| Narrator | Xe Sands |
| Length | 8 hours 51 minutes |
| Author | Kathleen Rooney |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | January 17, 2017 |
| ISBN | 9781427282385 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biographical, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427282385.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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