{"product_id":"9781427282378","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" — \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFall 2016 \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” \u003c\/i\u003eLillian Boxfish writes,\u003ci\u003e “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street…” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, \u003ci\u003eLillian Boxfish Takes a Walk\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026084020464,"sku":"9781427282378","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781427282378_p0.jpg?v=1763745949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781427282378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}