Flowers for Algernon
A Modern Literary Classic
(Sprache: Englisch)
'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' Guardian
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'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' GuardianCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement turns him into a genius.
Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Daniel Keyes worked as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He published four other novels, including Flowers for Algernon, originally a short story, for which he won the Hugo Award, later expanded into the Nebula Award-winning novel and adapted as an Oscar-winning film (Charly, 1968). Daniel Keyes had a Master's degree in English and American literature and was a Professor of English and Creative writing. He died in 2014.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Keyes
- 2017, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1474605737
- ISBN-13: 9781474605731
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.07.2018
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Englisch
Pressezitat
This is one of the greats: a story and a central character that have stayed with me for thirty years, from the first moment I picked it up Conn Iggulden
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