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Jacket Description/Back:
When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesn't hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key - he hopes - to being valued as a human being and to being loved. Daniel Keyes's powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of Algernon (the mouse who is an earlier subject of a similar experiment) remains unique in imaginative literature. We follow Charlie Gordon's mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. We watch with excitement as he becomes the focus of attention by the scientific world, his intellectual capacities far surpassing those of the psychologists and neurosurgeons who engineered his metamorphosis. We also follow the progress of his romance with two women, one who knew him before the experiment as well as with another, who knows him only as the attractive, bright, and sympathetic man he has become. And, finally, we hope against hope that what happens suddenly, unexpectedly, to Algernon will not happen to Charlie.
Brief Description:
Mentally disabled Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius but only temporarily.
Marc Notes:
Mentally disabled Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius but only temporarily.;012-up.
Review Quotes:
PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
"A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--
The New York Times
"An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--The Baltimore Sun
Publisher Marketing:
"Flowers For Algernon" made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motional picture production. Now, full bodied and richly-peopled, "Flowers For Algernon" is the daring novel of a starling human experiment!
"A tale that is convincing, suspectful and touching..." -- "The New York Times."
"Fascinating, agonizing... Superb." -- "Birmingham News."
"This novel should be on your 'must read' list." -- "Palm Beach Post-Times."
"Strikingly original..." -- "Publishers' Weekly."
"Absorbing... Immensely original... Going to be read for a long time to come." -- "Library Journal."
Publisher Marketing:
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.
As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?
Review Citations:
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Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780151001637, Hardcover)
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Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 105 (EAN 9780156030304, Paperback)
Contributor Bio:Keyes, Daniel
Daniel Keyes (1927 - 2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College. He was the author of eight books, including the classic
Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell more than five million copies and inspire the Oscar-winning film
Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, a fiction editor, a high school teacher, and as a university professor at Ohio University, where he was honored at Professor Emeritus in 2000. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work and was chosen as an Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
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