Pearl in the mist

Informationen zum Autor One of the most popular authors of all time! V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of  Flowers in the Attic ! first in the renowned Dollanganger family series! which includes  Petals on the Wind! If There Be Thorns! Seeds of Yesterday!  and  Garden of Shadows.  The family saga continues with  Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth !  Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger ! and  Secret Brother.  V.C. Andrews has written more than seventy novels! which have sold over 106 million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty-five foreign languages. Prologue Dear Paul, I waited until the last minute to write this letter to you, mainly because I wasn´t sure until now that I would do what my father asked and, with my twin sister, Gisselle, attend a private school for girls in Baton Rouge. Despite the promises I made to him, I have been having nightmares about it. I´ve seen the brochures of the school, which is called Greenwood. It does took beautiful, consisting of a grand structure containing the classrooms, an auditorium, a gym, and even an indoor pool; as well as three dormitory buildings, each with sprawling willow and oak trees in front; its own lake filled with lavender hyacinths; beautiful wooded grounds of red oak and hickory; clay tennis courts and ballfields; in short, everything anyone could want. I´m sure it has far better facilities and opportunities than I would have at our public school in New Orleans. But it is a school attended by only the wealthiest, upper-class young women from the finest Creole families in Louisiana. I´m not prejudiced against wealthy people who come from highly respectable backgrounds, but I know I´ll be surrounded by dozens and dozens of girls who have been brought up the way Gisselle has. They will think like her, dress like her, act like her, and they will make me feel like an outsider. My father has great confidence in me. He thinks I can overcome any obstacles and I would be more than a match for any and all snobby girls I might encounter. He´s so confident in my artistic talent that he believes the school will immediately recognize it and want to see me develop and succeed so they can get credit for it. I know he´s just trying to help me shake off my doubts and fears. But no matter how I feel about going to this school, I guess it´s the best thing I could do at the moment, for it will at least get me away from my stepmother, Daphne. When you came to visit us and you asked me if things had gotten better, I told you yes, but I wasn´t telling you the whole truth. The truth was, I had almost been put away and forgotten in the mental institution my poor Uncle Jean, my father´s brother, is in. My stepmother had conspired with the administrator to have me committed. With the help of a very nice but deeply disturbed young man named Lyle, I escaped and returned home. I told my father what had occurred and he and Daphne had a horrible argument. After things settled down, he came to me with the proposal to send me and Gisselle to Greenwood, the private school. I saw how important it was to him that we get away from Daphne, and I saw how happy she was that we were leaving. So I am being pulled in two directions. On the one hand I am very nervous about attending Greenwood, but on the other I am glad to get away from what has become a very dark and dreary home. I feel bad about leaving my father. He seems to have grown years older in just a few months. Strands of gray have popped up here and there in his chestnut hair, and he doesn´t stand as straight nor move as energetically as he did when I first arrived. I feel almost as if I´m deserting him, but he wants Gisselle and me to attend this private school and I want to make him happy and ease his burdens and tensions. Gisselle hasn´t once stopped complaining and whining. Sh...

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• Autori: V. C. Andrews, Virginia C. Andrews
• Con la collaborazione di: Linda Marrow (Editore)
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.05.1994
• EAN: 9780671759360
• ISBN: 978-0-671-75936-0
• Pagine: 374
• Dimensioni: 110 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Landry Saga (Paperback); Landry Saga (Paperback)
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi