Flowers for Algernon
By: Daniel Keyes.
Edition: 1st harvest ed. (u)
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Orlando, FL, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780156030083
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.; Brain -- Surgery -- Fiction.; Gifted persons -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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, Charlies 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?

--back cover
Notes: "A Harvest Book."