Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, (Paperback)

from hadden

Florence King wrote her stories of growing up in the south in the 1940s and 1950s, and problems of race, class, belonging, position, status, relationships, security and family desires for their children and grandchildren to be different and sometimes contradictory things. An especially touching b...

from DrLed

Synopsis: Florence King was the daughter of a woman who didn't fit into a mold. She held a job in a time when married women were supposed to be at home; she swore; she played baseball. Her father was a Brit who played in bands and worked as a bartender; when not working he read widely and extensi...

from paperloverevolution

I'm not sure what marketing genius decided to saddle this book with a pink floral cover. It's unfortunate and misleading. Once I recommended this book to a soccer-mom type looking for something for her Southern Writers Book Club. I'm not sure what I was thinking. Possibly I was only remembering h...

from wareagle78

Hmm. Interesting book about growing up Southern in the 1950's. Not quite as funny as I thought it would be (although it certainly had its moments), and I didn't know it got so into lesbianism in the last third. King's writing is wry and descriptive. Some of my favorite passages were descriptive, ...

from spiralsheep

100/2020. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss Florence King's ass, goodbye! And if that's your type of humour then you'll enjoy this witty confessional memoir (although how much is strict historical truth is open to question): "No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the stree...