Flowers for Algernon
Student Edition
$60.46
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
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 A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780151001637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0151001634 |
| Author: | Daniel Keyes |
| Publisher: | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Imprint: | Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 145mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Harcourt Brace Modern Classic |
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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
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
About The Author
Daniel Keyes
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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