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King and Her Court
Florence King's fans. Plus: Jack Valenti's unfans. Sierra roads. Freepers of the flame. And more.
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MISSING FLORENCE KING
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Re: Colby Cosh’s
Our Florence
Nightingale
:
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p>Most of today’s Florence King fans do not know some of her best
work, notably her (first) 1978 book,
He: An Irreverent Look at
the American Male
. Amazon lists it as “out of stock,” with
“used and new” copies available starting at $37. The introduction,
at about 40 pages, may be the funniest sustained writing in 20th
Century American humor, as it describes King’s own “Dagwood
Bumstead” sexual history. (King expanded this memoir to become the
later
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
.) It proceeds
to an absolute evisceration of a baker’s dozen American man
archetypes (“The Michael Man,” “William ‘Bill’ Flanagan,” etc.).
Strangely,
National Review
house ads for various King
collections always leave this one out.
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—
Lawrence Henry
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