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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. These essays by King form a hilarious anthropological study of the South. Some are dated since it was first published in 1975, but they still hold a resonance that will explain some things to any confused Northerner (Good Old Boys, "coming out", flirting and more). I don't think anything holds a candle to King's memoir Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, but this is still a great read by a fantastic writer. Florence King is a hoot. While the South that she writes about here is probably lost forever, there are enough familiar caricatures, er... characters, portrayed in her sharp-witted, sharper-tongued survey of Southern life to provoke a grin and even outright laughter. Not for the faint of heart, King pulls no punches. The book is peppered with both profanity and vulgarity aplenty (but if it offends, it must hit home, so...). It's easy to see why her "Misanthope's Corner" was a popular column in National Review for years. Give this slim paperback a try, if you can find a copy. I think you'll find that even we Yankees can recognize more than a few of the types preserved, skewered butterfly-like between the pages. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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 coatsand 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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