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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Cover of Flowers for Algernon

Published 1966 by Harcourt, Brace & World · 274 pages

Hugo Nominee 1967Nebula Winner 1967
Science Fiction

Synopsis

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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Details

Debut

This was the author's debut novel

Author Nationality

US

Adaptation

Charly (1968, film)

ISBN

9780151315109

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