Flowers for Algernon

Name: Flowers for Algernon
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Author: Daniel Keyes
ISBN: 9781440773433

Author: Daniel Keyes

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/11/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories

Synopsis

Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. 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. In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year. Through Jeff Woodman's narration, now it becomes an unforgettable audio experience.

About Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was the author of eight books, including the classic Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell more than five million copies and inspire the Oscar-winning film Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, a fiction editor, a high school teacher, and as a university professor at Ohio University, where he was honored at Professor Emeritus in 2000. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on May 08, 2023

progriss riport 1 I reed this book and I liked it and I should rite down what I think. Its a story about how a boy got smart. I dont remembir I should reed it again. progriss riport 2 So the boy got smart and then went stupid and its important cause it was about how we shouldn’t mess with nature and t......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 26, 2019

I am finding it hard to put into words the vast range of emotions I experienced while reading this tale of hope, perseverance, truth and humanity. When it comes to science fiction in general, I would hesitate before declaring myself a fan. The books I have enjoyed most from this genre tend to be the......more

Goodreads review by Emily on June 28, 2019

All I knew about this classic when I went into was that it was about a mouse. Clearly I knew nothing. You're watching Charlie, the main character, go through an experimental procedure that increases his IQ. The whole book, written in diary entries, let us see how it affects his life and how he struggl......more

Goodreads review by Wil on June 10, 2009

Heartbreaking and beautiful. Required reading, as far as I am concerned.......more

Goodreads review by Federico on March 05, 2023

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Charlie Gordon works cleaning the floors in a store, and attends learning classes at Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults. All his life all he ever wanted was to learn, so he could become intelligent and be normal and have lots of friends. An opportunity arises......more