Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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Average rating4.1
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Ratings10
Average rating4.1
"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"--
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In our lives, we sometimes run across people who take our breath away with their zest, their wit, their purpose, their zing. Lillian Boxfish is one of those sorts of people. She's clever, brilliant really, and full of resolve for her life. She is an ad copywriter and a poet, and, as I read along, I couldn't believe how real she seemed. At the end of the book, I found out why: she was real; the author based Lillian Boxfish, in part, on the life of Margaret Fishback.
This may be the best novel I read this year.
