Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
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Published
New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, [2017].
Format
Pre-loaded Audio
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately XX hours, XX minutes) : digital, HD audio ; 9 x 6 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781427288042, 1427288046
UPC
9781427288042

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Issued on Playaway, the all-in-one audiobook.
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"HD"--Container.
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"Light"--Container.
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Read by Xe Sands.
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"Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick. "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. A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk 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. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rooney, K., & Sands, X. (2017). Lillian Boxfish takes a walk (Unabridged.). Macmillan Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands. 2017. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. Macmillan Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen, 1980- and Xe, Sands. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Macmillan Audio, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rooney, Kathleen, and Xe Sands. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Unabridged., Macmillan Audio, 2017.

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