Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady (Virago Modern Classics)

Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady (Virago Modern Classics)

by Florence King (Author), Florence King (Author), Sandi Toksvig (Introduction)

Synopsis

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 ...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 1844081281
ISBN 13: 9781844081288
Book Overview: * A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South.

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 *
Gerald Durrell * 'One of the funniest writers around' *
Author Bio
Florence King was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Virginia.