Chloris and the freaks: A novel [Hardcover]

Kin Platt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1975

Adjusting to her father's suicide and mother's remarriage leads a young girl to astrology which she uses to sort her family problems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 217 pages
• Publisher: Bradbury Press; First Edition edition (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878880895
• ISBN-13: 978-0878880898
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,750,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Startling and Tragic, This story is moving and believable, March 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Chloris and the Freaks (Paperback)

I am saddened to see that the Chloris books by Kin Platt have gone out of print. Though written in the early 1970s these books have a lot to say about our divorce happy society and the effects on children. The characters of Jenny, Chloris, and Fidel Mancha are very true to life and likeable. I love all three of the Chloris books and I would highly recommend them all, especially to children of divorce.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars VERY DISAPPOINTING!, August 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Chloris and the Freaks (Paperback)

Poor Chloris has a lot on her plate. A spoiled, favored little princess of a sister who shouldn't happen to a dog, a lousy mother, a father who killed himself when she was 8 and a nice step father she refused to bond with. I absolutely hated Princess Jenny and their stupid mother. The vain, spoiled woman clearly needed male attention and was a pitiful excuse of an adult and an embarrassing excuse for a mother. She clearly favors Princess Jenny and I didn't like the way she referred to Chloris as "your sister." The stupid woman wasn't even NICE to Choloris. The poor girl had no inheritance as her father squandered it and rotten Jenny ended up getting the lion's share of everything -- affection, inheritance and esteem. Too bad Jenny never got hers -- she's a two faced back stabbing creep. I always hoped Chloris would come out on top and ditch that rotten mother and rotten sister once and for good. Who needed them anyhow?