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Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)
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Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

(author), (author of introduction)
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Paperback 288 Pages
Published: 01/06/2006
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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 ...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844081288
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 234 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm


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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’

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