Flowers for Algernon
About this book
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...
Subjects
- american science fiction
- award:nebula_award=novel
- brain
- cerebro
- cerveau
- children's fiction
- chirurgie
- cirugía
- dementia
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- fiction, science fiction, general
- gifted persons
- grifted peoples
- institutionalization
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- mentally handicapped
- nebula award
- niños superdotados
- novela
- open library staff picks
- people with mental disabilities
- people with mental disabilities, fiction
- personas dotadas
- personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle
- phenylketonuria
- psychological fiction
- readers
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- retrasados mentales
- romans, nouvelles
- science fiction
- surdoués
- surgery
- young adult fiction