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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes

Published 1966 by Harcourt, Brace & World · 274 pages
Hugo Nominee 1967Nebula Winner 1967
Science FictionSynopsis
Charlie Gordon, an intellectually disabled man, undergoes experimental surgery that raises his intelligence to genius levels, documented through his own progress reports. As he surpasses his researchers, he discovers the effect is temporary when the laboratory mouse Algernon, who received the same treatment, begins to deteriorate and die.
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Debut
This was the author's debut novel
Author Nationality
US
Adaptation
Charly (1968, film)
ISBN
9780151315109