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A review by angelamichelle
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
3.0
This book has a great premise--formerly pioneering ad woman and it girl, now lonely and in her mid-eighties walks through NYC reminiscing and encountering people--but it disappoints.
- Didn't ever seem to really penetrate past the clever veneer the character wields. The voice was always too polished, too presented. I never actually felt I saw the real Lillian Boxfish.
- Way too much tell (in that distancing cleverness) and not much show.
- A big deal is made of her queen-of-Manhattan youth and her tragic middle age. But it never at all illuminates how one became the other, and that I think would have been an interesting story.
- Seems to confuse route across town with plot arc.
- Didn't ever seem to really penetrate past the clever veneer the character wields. The voice was always too polished, too presented. I never actually felt I saw the real Lillian Boxfish.
- Way too much tell (in that distancing cleverness) and not much show.
- A big deal is made of her queen-of-Manhattan youth and her tragic middle age. But it never at all illuminates how one became the other, and that I think would have been an interesting story.
- Seems to confuse route across town with plot arc.