01657cam a2200289 4500 266116370 TxAuBib 20160621120000.0 040305s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004005049 9780156030083 015603008X TxAuBib Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes. 1st harvest ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2004. 311 p. ; 18 cm. "A Harvest Book.". When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie? An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly. 20160621. People with mental disabilities Fiction. Brain Surgery Fiction. Gifted persons. Fiction. Science fiction. Psychological fiction.