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A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERPowell’s Best Books of 2017Audible Best Books of 2017“Irresistible...funny and touching....This witty and heartfelt ode to a city, to its infinite variety, to its melting pot of citizens not only enchants but offers an important lesson: that human connections and work are what give life meaning.â€â€•Boston Globe“Transporting…witty, poignant and sparkling.â€â€•People (People Picks Book of the Week)“Prescient and quick....A perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal.â€â€•Chicago Tribune“Lillian’s wide-ranging meditations are reason enough to read this charming novel, but it’s also like taking a street-level tour through six decades of New York.â€â€•New York Times “I love this book....Just wonderful....A picture of a woman who tried and succeeded in making it in what was a man’s profession." ―Nancy Pearl“Extraordinary…hilarious…Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time―and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future.―Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed)"Rooney's delectably theatrical fictionalization is laced with strands of tart poetry and emulates the dark sparkle of Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Truman Capote. Effervescent with verve, wit, and heart, Rooney’s nimble novel celebrates insouciance, creativity, chance, and valor."―Booklist (starred review)“Effervescent…steeped in humanity and wit.â€â€•The Christian Science Monitor (10 Best Books of January)“Needle-sharp....A delightful stroll with a colorful character.â€â€•Library Journal (starred review)"If you haven’t read Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, you’ll want to rectify that immediately. It is tart and charming and might make you miss your Nanna." ―Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Enchanting….[Rooney] is clearly in her element here….Pre-Mad Men, [Lillian] combines the smarts of Peggy Olson, the sex appeal of Joan Holloway, and a hefty dose of independence that’s all her own.â€â€•FinancialTimes (UK)“Illuminating….singular…wonderful.â€â€•The Philippine Star"Past and present intermingle in Rooney’s novel, distinguished by a careful shift from past to present tense but always unified by Lillian’s unfailingly witty, reflective voice."―BookReporter“Charming.â€â€•Minneapolis Star-Tribune“Well written, funny, and wise, Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk is one of those novels that once again remind us of the power and value of fiction.†―Smoky Mountain News"Rooney courts regret and vulnerability with humor, as only a poet could....Lillian's walk is for anyone who craves a forgotten past or strains to make sense of the future." ―Edge Media“Easily the best gadding-around-town novel since Dawn Powell and Dorothy Parker.†―Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up and We Are Pirates"There is a little of Lillian Boxfish in all of us. And if there isn’t, there ought to be.â€â€•Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank With Me"A lively, fictionalized version of Fishback's story...[with] plenty of charm."―Kirkus Reviews“If you are not charmed by Lillian Boxfish, then there may be no hope for you.â€Â―Bookpage (Book of the Day)“This walk will sweep listeners off their feet…seemingly effortless yet so compelling.â€â€•AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award winner)
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About the Author
KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. She has been recognized as one of Newcity Lit's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2018." Her previous work includes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Salon, The Rumpus, The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Poetry Foundation website, and the Chicago Tribune. Kathleen was named "Best Novelist" by the Chicago Reader in 2017. She is married to the novelist Martin Seay.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (April 3, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781250151162
ISBN-13: 978-1250151162
ASIN: 1250151163
Product Dimensions:
5.7 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
412 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#8,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is a wonderful book that is based on the life of Margaret Fishback, the highest paid advertising copywriter for R H Macy’s during the 1930s. In this book, the protagonist Lillian Boxfish, at the age of 84, decides to walk to a fancy restaurant, the Delmonico’s on New Year’s Eve, 1984. There she meets Kathy and her daughter, Penny. Lillian arrives without a reservation, but Kathy, a stranger, overhears the waiter rejecting Lillian, and invites her to her table. Lilian changes her mind after dinner and decides to walk on to her young friend, Wendy’s New Year’s Eve party. It is a long walk from her home in Murray Hill, New York, a city she loves dearly. Along the way to Wendy’s home, Lillian recalls the story of her life, from the time she moved to New York, to her job at Macy’s, marrying her husband, and his divorcing her; and of her love for walking and writing. Hers is a story of life and how to grasp it, and how to regain it when it slips away from you. It is a moving account of a feisty old lady who tells us how feisty she was when young; that even America in the 1930s could not bump a woman of drive and ability off the road. This passage illustrates the wit and charm of Rooney’s book: ‘“Love, Olive, is not what I scoff at,†I said. “What I scoff at is rank sentimentalism: the silly idea of love that advertisers – including us – use to sell everything from soup to soap to subjugation. As for the city, Olive, I live here because I like it.â€â€œYou like it because it’s fashionable.â€â€œNo, Olive,†I said. “I like it for the same reason that it’s fashionable. Namely, that it is pretty swell.â€â€™ I do not know if this book has won any prizes, but it clearly deserves one.
Lillian is a wonderful woman - a symbol of a wide-eyed young professional in the 30's, a woman who put off marriage until her true love sold her a rug, a mom who loved her son dearly, but who could not be all to her, a woman who loved life, had endless curiosity, and a woman who worked through a terrible time when all seemed lost. From start to finish, this book kept me involved and I was sorry it ended. How I would have liked to spend some time walking and talking with Lillian in her NYC!
The first time I read Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk I had fun tweeting out clever lines, starring and underlining passages. Then, because I was so smitten with the book, with Lillian’s story, with Kathleen Rooney’s voice, I had to share it, so gave my book to an up-and-coming young female writer who I thought would appreciate the proto-feminist heroine, the smart plotting, the zinging humor. Thus, I no longer have my underlined copy and must start anew to refresh my memory.This is a happy burden, since it’s such a delicious read and succeeds on every level. It’s the story of a woman taking a ten-mile New Year’s Eve walk through 1980’s New York, and bumping into her 1930’s past along the way. It’s a love story that turns tragic. It’s a story that frames the tension between work and parenting. It’s a portrait of a lovely friendship between two ‘career’ women when they were the exception, not the rule. Women who would complete the truism: LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND, with this witticism—or truerism: THEN IT MAKES THE WORLD GO FLAT. Women I’d like to know, and felt I did, reading Rooney’s book.Perhaps it should be no surprise that Lillian Boxfish was inspired by a genuine figure, the highest paid advertising woman of her time, Margaret Fishback. Who, however highly paid, still got lower wages than lesser men. As it is, as it always has been. Perhaps, as it won’t always be, with such eloquent champions as Rooney.But Lillian Boxfish is much more than an “inspired-by†tale spoon-feeding us social history. Because Rooney is such a talented writer, it doesn’t matter if Lillian grew out of history or the author’s fertile imagination. She’s a full and ferocious heroine who will make you laugh out loud, will make you cringe when she’s hurt and will make you cheer when she lands a literary punch. Read it.
Based on the previous reviews I bought this book. As I started reading it I wasn't sure I liked it but I am very glad I pressed on as it turned out to be a delightful, charming book which is loosely based on an advertising women from the thirties. It is evident that the author has extensive knowledge of the English language as she uses many words I am unfamiliar with (or perhaps I'm just not as well versed as I thought I was). Even so, it all fit and worked. It really is an enchanting read.
I’d read some reviews before purchasing this book that said it was boring, and others who found it reminiscent of New York City. So I was surprised to find that this book was about a woman’s personal path and growth, from a new, young college graduate wanting to experience city living, maiden, mother, crone. I thought the author did a really good job of pealing back the story, bit by bit. Unfortunately, I found the story captivating, so when I would read it at 2 a.m, I couldn’t put it down until 4 a.m, which was not good for my work week - but very satisfying.I think this book may appeal most to people who have moved to new locations, tried a challenging professional role, balanced motherhood and a career, and have had to wake up one day as a mature woman instead of a “cute somethingâ€, or who has thought herself hardened, only to find she is tender and vulnerable
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