Southern Ladies and Gentlemen by Florence King

Southern Ladies and Gentlemen by Florence King

Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained--all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions--is he a G.O.B. or isn't he?--Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.) No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages.

Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, With Compassion Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy, Confessions of a Failing Southern Woman, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye, Take It or Leave It, Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting? are among Florence King's many works. Ms King, a native of Washington, D.C., now lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.