Flowers In The Attic Book Cover

At age 13 i survived almost entirely on green apple jolly ranchers and flowers in the attic and to this day i can t look at the book without my mouth watering my much loved copy must have come from a supermarket it was impossible to go to a supermarket in the 80s to say secretly stock up on green apple jolly ranchers without a v c.

Flowers in the attic book cover.

With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. With cathy chris and carrie traveling to florida after escaping foxworth hall. I remember a girl actually got in trouble for bringing it to free reading period in english class.

Andrews 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. It was a reprint of a popular story first published in 1979 written by bestselling novelist v c. Still weak from the effects of the poison that killed her twin cory carrie gets sick on the bus. Flowers in the attic really was one messed up book.

Well you could make a very good argument that flowers in the attic did the same thing for a generation of pre teen girls. Petals on the wind picks up immediately where flowers in the attic left off. Directed by jeffrey bloom. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.

Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower.

Simple yet stunning flowers in the attic burst into the main stream with a cover idea that not only is iconic but revolutionised the entire paper back world in terms of design. A stark image of a house with a hauntingly beautiful girl peeking out from an attic window on closer inspection if you. Henrietta henny beech a mute african american woman rescues them and takes them to the home of her employer 40 year old widower. Andrews shocking 1979 gothic family saga flowers in the attic.

When i was 12 everybody was sneaking this novel under the covers or behind their math books. Andrews book lurking by checkout. Flowers in the attic reprint is terrifying for all the wrong reasons photo the latest edition of flowers in the attic came out a few years ago published by pocket books. Out now beneath the attic is an origin story that tells the twisted history of the dollanganger clan introduced in v c.

Andrews who died in 1986.