Flowers for Algernon

Description:

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: institutionalization,  dementia,  phenylketonuria,  award:nebula_award=novel,  Brain,  Surgery,  People with mental disabilities,  Gifted persons,  Fiction,  American Science fiction,  Retrasados mentales,  Niños superdotados,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Readers,  Cerebro,  Ficción juvenil,  Cirugía,  Science fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Young adult fiction,  Psychological fiction,  Personas dotadas,  Nebula Award,  Novela,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Large type books,  Children's fiction,  People with mental disabilities, fiction,  Mentally handicapped,  Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle,  Romans, nouvelles,  Surdoués,  Cerveau,  Chirurgie,  Grifted peoples

People: Charlie Gordon,  Alice Kinnian,  Dr. Nemur,  Dr. Strauss,  Norma Gordon,  Algernon

Places: United States,  Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults,  Brooklyn,  Warren Home School