Flowers for Algernon

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  • Author: Keyes, Daniel
    Contributor:

    de Sousa, Ros

    Summary:

    Charlie Gordon has an IQ of only sixty-eight and, the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, he conscientiously sweeps the floor in his local bakery until he is recommended to some university researchers. They have successfully operated on Algernon, a laboratory mouse, to enhance his intelligence and now they are looking for a human subject. The experiment turns Charlie into a genius but then he watches Algernon fade and die and recognises his own fate.

    Genre: Psychological fiction
    Original Publisher: London : Victor Gollancz, 2006 , Victoria Park, W.A. , Association for the Blind of W.A.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    0151001634

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de Sousa, Ros

Abstract

Charlie Gordon has an IQ of only sixty-eight and, the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, he conscientiously sweeps the floor in his local bakery until he is recommended to some university researchers. They have successfully operated on Algernon, a laboratory mouse, to enhance his intelligence and now they are looking for a human subject. The experiment turns Charlie into a genius but then he watches Algernon fade and die and recognises his own fate.

Genre
Psychological fiction
Publisher (Source)

London : Victor Gollancz, 2006

Victoria Park, W.A.

Association for the Blind of W.A.

Not specified
ISBN

0151001634

0575079207

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