Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady - Hardcover

King, Florence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312162154 ISBN 13: 9780312162153

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1985

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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Review:

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’)

Book Description:

* A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0312162154
• ISBN 13: 9780312162153
• Binding: Hardcover