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There’s the Virginia of King’s younger years and the Mississippi of her college years, but no matter the location, she delivers her story with scathing observations and hysterical wit.

Whether you want it to or not, the South comes alive in King’s capable hands–the good, the bad, and the all-too-familiar ugly (which is to say, it will be all-too-familiar if you’ve lived your whole life in the South, as I have). Fear not, my hetero readers: There are plenty of wild bedroom escapades with men before she figures out her orientation.) (I suppose at this point I should mention that King is a lesbian. No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street.”

“Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide,” writes King, “but I will say one thing in my own favor…. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (2006 edition) Open Library Not in Library Want to Read 1 2 3 4 5 Review Check nearby libraries Library.link WorldCat Amazon More When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. This is the memoir of Florence King’s mid-twentieth-century girlhood in Virginia, with characters as crazy and familiar as you’d find in the best of Southern Fiction: There is a chainsmoking mother who swears like a sailor, a woefully out-of-place English father, and a grande dame grandmother hellbent on making a proper Southern lady out of her granddaughter. The story itself, fortunately, has aged far better than the garish cover art. That particular shade of pink has been extinct for well over twenty years now. Here in the oldies-but-goodies category we have Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. Author: Florence King Title: Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady Call no: KIN Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography From the perspective of nearly thirty years, Florence King has re-created what was unique about herself, her family and her upbringing, and the universalities of her experience as well.

Confessions of a failed southern lady