Flowers in the attic has 31 trivia questions about it.
Why is flowers in the attic so popular.
Flowers in the attic a k a the book that made teenage girls look sideways at their brothers and shudder as my similarly besotted pal lindsay put it wasn t originally marketed as a young adult book when it was first printed in 1979 but it soon found its niche in the hearts of pubescent girls across the land.
A review in the washington post didn t mince its words describing it as deranged swill.
Andrews who was both named virginia and from virginia bestowed upon the jaded world a gothic tale of imprisonment abuse southern fried religious fanaticism and of course incest that continues to shock readers to this day.
So i m not going to let anybody put one of my books down and not finish it.
It caused quite a stir as it revolved around child abuse incest and the demonizing of religion.
Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in.
F orty years ago this month flowers in the attic the debut novel of one vc andrews was published.
To her fans published one of the trashiest books in the trashy paperback canon.
Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.
And now it s popularly acknowledged as a ya book.
Flowers in the attic was originally a 1979 book by v c.
Flowers in the attic the story of the blonde blameless dollanganger children kept in an attic by their narcissistic mother so she could win father s inheritance turns 40 this year.
For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me.
The novel is narrated by cathy dollanganger who is imprisoned with her siblings at the age of 12 and finally.
Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.
In 1979 cleo virginia andrews known as v c.
So why was flowers in the attic so uniquely appealing to its first teenage readers.
Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary.
What are flowers in the attic in flowers in the attic the four lovely dollanganger children ear.
Secret brother the novel is written in the first person from the point of.