Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

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Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. 'Transporting.witty, poignant and sparkling.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. For now, after all, the night is still young. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. 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.

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. 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 was a job that, she says, 'in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.' Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country.

She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. 'In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,' Lillian Boxfish writes, 'I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street.' '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 MagazineĪ 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.