{"product_id":"lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathleen Rooney. Used. Very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books \u0026 Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47400175927469,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksandbrew.net\/products\/lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk","provider":"Books And Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}