Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.
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Andrews was born cleo virginia andrews in portsmouth virginia.
It is a gothic novel with horror elements that the author claims is a true story with changed names of places and characters but these claims have faced many disputes.
Flowers in the attic 1979 which she wrote an early draft of in 1975 became a bestseller although the washington post declared the book deranged swill and andrews possibly the worst writer i have ever read.
Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.
I went through a flowers in the attic phase years ago lots of people did a guilty guilty pleasure.
The book like the others in the series was a number one best seller in north america in the early 1980s.
Flowers in the attic is one of the five stories about the dollanganger family the first of the book series.
The dollanganger family lives in pennsylvania where their father often travels on business for the public relations firm for which he works.
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The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of cathy dollanganger.
In 2014 it was adapted into a lifetime original movie.
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The timeline takes place from the siblings successful escape in november 1960 to the fall of 1975.
Flowers in the attic is a dark gothic tale of greed and incest that will keep readers spellbound until the final paragraph.
The book has much more of an icky cringe factor than jerry or jeremy where the salacious details are part of the entertainment of fifteen minutes of the tackiest loudest and most violent people on tv.
12 year old cathy loses her father in a tragic car accident on his birthday leading to a move from her middle class home to her wealthy as of yet unknown grandparents mansion in the.
Best known for books like flowers in the attic the wildly over the top 1979 gothic family saga about four children locked in an attic by their grandmother vc andrews died in 1986 but that.
The book was extremely po.
Andrews she became a novelist late in life having previously worked as a commercial artist illustrator and portrait painter.
Flowers in the attic book summary and study guide.
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It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014.
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The first book in a seri.
The american writer virginia c.
It is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary.
