The Resource Lillian boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
Lillian boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
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The item Lillian boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- '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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781410499660
- Label
- Lillian boxfish takes a walk
- Title
- Lillian boxfish takes a walk
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathleen Rooney
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- '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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rooney, Kathleen
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City and town life
- Interpersonal relations
- Older women
- Reminiscing
- Large print books
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Lillian boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
- Control code
- 000059543481
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410499660
- Isbn Type
- (large print : hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017001363
- Other physical details
- map
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)970396407
- Label
- Lillian boxfish takes a walk, Kathleen Rooney
- Control code
- 000059543481
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410499660
- Isbn Type
- (large print : hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017001363
- Other physical details
- map
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)970396407
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