Its December 31, 1984, and eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish is preparing for her annual New. Effervescent with verve, wit, and heart, Rooney’s nimble novel celebrates insouciance, creativity, chance, and valor. Find items like Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk at Bas Bleu. Her delectably theatrical fictionalization is laced with strands of tart poetry and emulates the dark sparkle of Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Poet and novelist Rooney ( O, Democracy! 2014) found sublime inspiration, thanks to a librarian friend, in real-life ad writer and poet Margaret Fishback. On this reckless odyssey, mink-clad Lillian is both embraced and accosted by strangers, all while contemplating the changes the years have brought to her and her beloved city. Lillian Boxfish admires her aunt Sadie, an independent woman with a successful career in New York City. The story is loosely based on the life of the American writer Margaret Fishback who published well-received poems and short stories from the 1920s until the 1960s. Now 85 and still venturing out on foot in all seasons and still in full possession of her gift for pithy, droll, and mischievous language (“Solutions of style have a greater moral force than those of obligation”), Lillian decides to celebrate 1984’s New Year’s Eve by dining as she does every year at a favorite restaurant, then walking through the city to attend a party to which she was invited by a young photographer she met in the park. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is a 2017 historical novel by Kathleen Rooney. One secret to her success was her love of New York City and her devotion to daily walks.
Glamorous and ambitious Lillian Boxfish was celebrated in front-page articles in 1931 as “the highest paid advertising woman in America.” She was also famous for her best-selling books of wryly irreverent light verse.
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