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Flowers For Algernon (Gollancz S.F.)

Flowers For Algernon (Gollancz S.F.)

by Daniel Keyes (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $38.63
Synopsis

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceeded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibilty that his salvation was only temporary.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 01 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0575079207
ISBN 13: 9780575079205
Book Overview: A stunning SF novel Republished in Gollancz with a specially commissioned introduction by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Astounding new cover treatment to make this backlist series a must-have collection The promotion includes the best-known names in SF: Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Joe Haldeman ... this really is the very best of classic SF 'A narrative tour de force, very moving, beautiful and remorseless in its simple logic ... one of the universally appealing stories of our time' Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels Flowers For Algernon won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and was adapted as the Oscar-winning film Charly

Author Bio
Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and has worked as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He has published two other novels, but Flowers for Algernon remains his best known work.