Read an exclusive introduction to Flowers for Algernon by author Joanne Harris.
I hope they use me because Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon,I werk in Donners bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollars a week and bred and or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is my birthday.
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence.
Charlie Gordon,IQ 68,is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence changes him. It's a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.
All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends,but the treatment turns him into a genius. But then Algernon,the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his,fades and dies,and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474605731Number of pages: 256Weight: 225 gDimensions: 133 x 200 x 18 mm
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