Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel
(Spoken CD)
Author
Contributors
Sands, Xe, narrator.
Published
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017].
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
1427282374, 9781427282378
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cambridge - Audiovisual | CDB FICTION Rooney, Kathleen | On Shelf |
Dedham - Audiovisual | AUDIOBOOK FIC ROO | On Shelf |
Lexington - Audiovisual | CD SPOKEN ROONEY | On Shelf |
Medford - Audiovisual | Books on CD/Rooney | On Shelf |
Needham - Audiovisual | AUDIO Rooney (CDs) | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017].
Format
Spoken CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
1427282374, 9781427282378
UPC
9781427282378
Notes
General Note
Compact disc.
General Note
Title from container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Xe Sands.
Description
"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, eighty-five 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 ten 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.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.Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rooney, K., & Sands, X. (2017). Lillian Boxfish takes a walk: a novel (Unabridged.). Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands. 2017. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel. Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel Macmillan Audio, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rooney, Kathleen, and Xe Sands. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel Unabridged., Macmillan Audio, 2017.
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