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

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: 220 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS
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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