Daniel Keyes

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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesn’t hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key—he hopes—to being valued as a human being and to being loved.

Daniel Keyes’s powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of…

 
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