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    Audiobook8 hours

    Flowers For Algernon

    Written by Daniel Keyes

    Narrated by Adam Sims

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    'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' Guardian

    Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - 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 treatement turns him into a genius.

    Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?

    Read by Adam Sims
    (p) Orion Publishing Group 2017
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette UK Audio
    Release dateAug 17, 2017
    ISBN9781409176305
    Author

    Daniel Keyes

    Daniel Keyes (1927 - 2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College. He 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 and was chosen as an Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.

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      Probably I’m the only one who will say this but I can’t keep on listening to the audiobook. I just can’t. Probably the creepiest narration I’ve ever listened to. The book seems interesting though so I’ll have to get me a paperback instead.