Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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· 79 ratings · 228 pages · Published: 1959
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
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