Essays discuss American culture, children, spinsterhood, transplants, humor, romance novels, and women authors

Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye

Humor & Entertainment

King,Florence

Humor

St Martins Pr

In this collection of essays, Florence King confirms her position as one of the wittiest social critics now writing-and certainly the most uninhibited. Nothing escapes her withering gaze, from our greatest national institution ("Democrazy"), to the cult of Helpism ("Does Your Child Taste Salty?"), to the rules of historical romance writing ("Sex and the Saxon Churl"). If caring 'n' compassion are getting you down, open this book for a refreshing whiff of vitriol.

Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

St. Martin's: Griffin

Takes a caustic look at topics ranging from higher education and traditional values to feminist obsessions and advice to the South

Lump It or Leave It

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."

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St.Martin's Press

"Florence King wields the sharpest blade in America. Her cuts are so swift that the smiles are still on the faces when she displays the heads on her trophy wall."--Washington Post. Finally in trade paperback, here is the latest volume of stiletto essats from the author of Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye and Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.

A humorous look at the misanthropic life discusses famous misanthropes ranging from Rousseau to Richard Nixon

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy

The unreconstructed people-hater offers her piece de resistance: a guided tour of the misanthropic life, and an inspirational handbook for Americans grown tired of "goo-goo humanitarianism and sensitivity that never sleeps." "The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too close together."--The New York Times.

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy

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 & Gentlemen

A collection of the author's previous or unavailable works features excerpts from each of her books; a complete novel, When Sisterhood Was in Flower; noted columns and book reviews, and a selection from The Barbarian Princess.

The Florence King Reader

A collection of writings by the humorist author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady features excerpts from each of her books; a complete novel, When Sisterhood Was in Flower; noted columns and book reviews; essays on modern life; and a selection from The Barbarian Princess. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

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Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye

Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Lump It or Leave It

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir

Lump It or Leave It

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy

Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

The Florence King Reader

The Florence King Reader