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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
by Florence King
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (1990-10-15)
ISBN: 0312050631
EAN: 9780312050634
Dewy Decimal #: 818.5409
Paperback: 278 pages
SKU: 07020071
Condition: Like New as issued n
Comments: Paperback. Like new condition with no markings and no creases to spine or cover. Very slight wear to cover. Near fine copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."
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Customer Reviews
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Florence King is my hero!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-17
No one on this earth can write a story (or a book review) like Florence King can! The fluidity of her writing never ceases and I felt like I was there watching this story of her life unfold. She is a brave, strong, independant woman with amazing talent! Although any people will clump her with "feminists", she is not.
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Yes, she failed
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-05-21
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was born and bred in Virginia. I didn't like this book. I identified with only about 25 percent of it. For example, all of the women in my family are good housekeepers. Also, for the prospective buyer, there is foul language in it and a pornographic description of a lesbian affair.
It is interesting that most of the reviews that rave over this book are from northerners.
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Divine
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-27
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A friend shared this book with me. King's wit is unsurpassed in this day and age. Having found myself being an "honorary southerner" - relocated from the midwest to the deep south - her question throughout the book ("just what IS a lady?") could only have been explored with such humor and insight as this writer. I found myself laughing openly numerous times - not in a Bridget-Jones-Diary-Outrageous way, but in the One-Couldn't-MAKE-THIS-STUFF-Up kind of way.
Having born witness to many similar smelling-salt-scenarios King describes, I found myself fully entwined in this book. Poignant, observant, honest, intelligent, this is one writer you need to have on your bookshelf.
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is an awesome, unforgettable book expecially for those of us who are southern transplants.
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-28
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
King's book features a quirky mish mash of mismatched family members who, at first glance, seem not to belong together at all. This book examines the various relationships of those characters while simultaneously being a coming of age story regarding young Florence King as she ages throughout this books and faces the many trials and tribulations of her various ages. I've read this book several times and it never fails to get a laugh out of me as Florence moves through her childhood and young adulthood with her brash, tomboy mother who smokes and screams at baseball games on the radio, her father a proper British bartender who works nights and her granny who defines all Southern women as having either problems "down below" or else "in the head." This book will have you holding your side in stitches in places as you laugh yourself silly. A truly great reaad.
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Confessions is eerily true!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-01-24
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am truly a southerner, and Ms. King's irreverant approach to the traditions and ways of the south in the mid-twentieth century are so on target that it will startle the reader who is not from the south, and will sound all to familiar to the southern reader.
I found her covert feminism during this time in her life very interesting and educational. It almost seemed like the fact that she was a feminist during this time in her life was unknown to even herself.
Her honest talk about her sexual life I found startling.
The way she challenged the cultural norms of that time is educational for anyone who is living under a cloud of opression, real or just real to you.
it's a great read!
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