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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Florence King
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Description for Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Paperback. A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Granny worked so hard at my rearing. She was a frustrated ladysmith and I was her last chance...This is the story of my years on her anvil. Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide, but I will say one thing in my own favour before we begin. No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street.' When Florence King was born, her Granny, a would-be Virginia grande dame, moved in. 'Anybody could have a family,' writes Miss King. 'She wanted a race all to herself.' Granny's dream of raising the perfect Southern belle failed dismally with her own daughter, a chain-smoking, baseball-playing tomboy given to wild expletives. Florence is Granny's last hope ...
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Virago Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844081288
SKU
V9781844081288
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About Florence King
Florence King (1936-2016) was born in Washington, D.C. to a bookish British father and a tomboy American mother. King spent her childhood living with her parents, maternal grandmother, and her grandmother's maid. King showed talent in French, but unable to pursue it as a major at American University, she switched to a dual major of History and English. She attended the University of Mississippi for graduate school, but did not complete her M.A. degree after discovering she could make a living as a writer. King, who lived in Virginia at the time of her death, retired in 2002, but resumed writing a monthly column for National Review in 2006. Sandi Toksvig was born in Denmark, brought up in Africa, then America and moved to the UK when she was fourteen. She has been on British stage, screen and radio for over forty years and was awarded an OBE for Services to Broadcasting. She is the mother of three children, married and lives in London.
Reviews for Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny
Sandi Toksvig I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it
Jeanette Winterson One of the funniest writers around
Gerald Durrell The damndest adventures in autobiography hilarity to come down the pike in recent years . . . She is a Bombeck with bite, a female Art Bushwald with Southern sass, an A-one original American humorist down to her wicked, wicked bones
Susan Brownmiller An outrageous commentator on men, women, and other sources of amusement, particularly the Southern variety . . . Florence King never loses her warmth, her humor, or her ability to be delighted by life's inherent contradictions
Chicago Sun Times
Witty, intelligent, freewheeling . . . Surely the author told these stories before she wrote them, stretching and perfecting them with each telling, mining them for humor
Newsday
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny
Sandi Toksvig
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it
Jeanette Winterson
Gerald Durrell
'One of the funniest writers around’
Sandi Toksvig I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it
Jeanette Winterson One of the funniest writers around
Gerald Durrell The damndest adventures in autobiography hilarity to come down the pike in recent years . . . She is a Bombeck with bite, a female Art Bushwald with Southern sass, an A-one original American humorist down to her wicked, wicked bones
Susan Brownmiller An outrageous commentator on men, women, and other sources of amusement, particularly the Southern variety . . . Florence King never loses her warmth, her humor, or her ability to be delighted by life's inherent contradictions
Chicago Sun Times
Witty, intelligent, freewheeling . . . Surely the author told these stories before she wrote them, stretching and perfecting them with each telling, mining them for humor
Newsday
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny
Sandi Toksvig
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it
Jeanette Winterson
Gerald Durrell
'One of the funniest writers around’