{"product_id":"lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-by-kathleen-rooney-9781250151162","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Lillian Boxfish writes, \u003ci\u003e\"I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eLillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (People Picks Book of the Week)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643020132588,"sku":"9781250151162","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6ed4b48515bb2026d2a602e872c9b6df.jpg?v=1779170441","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-by-kathleen-rooney-9781250151162","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}