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Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp as ever, is on her way to a party. It's chilly enough 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 poet has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, shopkeepers, 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.
Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp as ever, is on her way to a party. It's chilly enough 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 poet has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, shopkeepers, 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.
is the author of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune. She works as a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing at DePaul University in Chicago where she teaches, among other things, a workshop on The Writer as Urban Walker.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781911547013 |
| ISBN-10: | 1911547011 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Rooney, Kathleen |
| Hersteller: | Daunt Books |
| Maße: | 197 x 131 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kathleen Rooney |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.06.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,331 kg |
is the author of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune. She works as a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing at DePaul University in Chicago where she teaches, among other things, a workshop on The Writer as Urban Walker.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781911547013 |
| ISBN-10: | 1911547011 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Rooney, Kathleen |
| Hersteller: | Daunt Books |
| Maße: | 197 x 131 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kathleen Rooney |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.06.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,331 kg |
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