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Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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A modern classic, Flowers for Algernon has sold over five million copies worldwide and inspired the Academy Award-winning film Charly.

'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' GuardianCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement turns him into a genius.Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
256
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN:
9781474605731
Published Date:
13/7/2017
Dimensions:
133mm x 200mm x 18mm
Weight:
225g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781474605731

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