Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

by Florence King

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This drags just a bit at first, but when Florence starts college, the book really begins to roll. Lots and lots of fun and well worth a read. (

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bohemima | Jan 1, 2009 |

I'm not a big fan of biographies, auto or otherwise, but i love this one - possibly as I thought it was a novel the first few times I read it. The bit that always makes me go back to it is the american dating rules, but theres so many other things to it. Always makes me laugh. (

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RoC | Sep 9, 2006 |

Florence King provides her readers with a hilarious and calculated look at the Southern culture she grew up in. I have read this book dozens of times--it never gets old--but I didn't truly appreciate it until I moved to Georgia. It's golden--read it. (

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Florence King

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Washington, D.C., USA

Oxford, Mississippi, USA

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"Like most exceptional women, Rosa was not entirely feminine."
~ The Duchess of Jermyn Street,
Daphne Fielding

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My ladylike adventures have taken me from Seattle to Paris, but last year I was carried back to Tidewater Virginia, which my ancestors helped to unsettle.

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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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