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title: "Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel Hardcover – January 17, 2017"
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# Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel Hardcover – January 17, 2017

**Brand:** kathleen rooney
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## Customer Reviews

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    A brisk Walk
  

*by H***Z on Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017*

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.”“You like it because it’s fashionable.”“No, Olive,” I said. “I like it for the same reason that it’s fashionable. Namely, that it is pretty swell.”’ I do not know if this book has won any prizes, but it clearly deserves one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    You will never regret taking a walk with Lillian Boxfish
  

*by G***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2017*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Delight
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017*

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!

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