Flowers For Algernon (Paperback)

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• Publisher: Harcourt
• ISBN: 0156030306
• WAPI (Tower ID): 100608403
• Release Date: May 1, 2005
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON has comfortably settled into the upper echelon of 20th-century English literature, joining CATCHER IN THE RYE, LORD OF THE FLIES, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD as the books most likely to be force-fed to young minds by high school literature teachers. However, even for the most reluctant student readers, obligation soon gives way to fascination, as few can resist the engagingly merry and utterly unique main character, Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged janitor whose broken, misspelled English makes for a narrative voice as distinctive as that of Huckleberry Finn or Holden Caulfield. With the help of an experimental new surgery, something wonderful happens--Charlie begins to get smarter. His rapidly advancing mental abilities are foreshadowed and mirrored by those of a mouse named Algernon, the other recipient of the surgery. As the novel progresses, Charlie's journal entries reflect his accelerated mental development, gradually becoming filled with profound wisdom, scientific innovation, and philosophical inquiry. Eventually Charlie's intelligence surpasses that of the scientists who are using him as a subject, and his possibilities seem limitless. But when Algernon's newfound genius begins to disintegrate, both Charlie and the reader realize the heartache that is to come, as he resignedly recedes to his former diminished mental state. Daniel Keyes's masterpiece, which shared the 1960 Nebula Award as Best Novel, is also among the most frequently banned books of all time, because of its depiction of Charlie's sexual confusion that arises as his intelligence is enhanced.

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