Flowers For Algernon

Author: Daniel Keyes

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780575116740
Publisher : Orion Publishing Co
Imprint : Gollancz
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Weight (g) : 0.328
Publication date : 31 July 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 24mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 19.99
Availability date : 01 November 2011
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Author : Daniel Keyes
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Pages : 256
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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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One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time

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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.

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