In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year. Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award winning motion picture, Charly. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie’s brain. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for re*tarded adults. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Charlie Gordon knows that he isn’t very bright.
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