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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- author.
Large Print 2017

Inspired by Margaret Fishback, poet and Macy's ad-writing phenom of the 1930s, Rooney imagines an extraordinary walk through the streets of New York City on the last night of 1984, one that triggers a flood of memories for fictional ad woman Lillian Boxfish. The octogenarian muses on the changing urban landscape as she stops at favorite haunts: an intimate neighborhood bar that's just installed a TV, a restaurant where she's dined every New Year'...

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City and town life New York (State) New York Fiction
Interpersonal relations Fiction
Older women Fiction
Reminiscing Fiction
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ISBN:
9781432847661
9781410499660
Edition:
Large print edition
Description:
437 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
large print
Notes:
Publisher, pagination, and printing dates may vary
LCCN:
2017001363
Control Number:
2133833
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