Flowers for Algernon - A Modern Literary Classic. Ausgezeichnet: Nebula Award 1967
Verlag | Orion Publishing Group |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 256 |
Format | 13,0 x 20,0 x 1,8 cm |
Gewicht | 243 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781474605731 |
Bestell-Nr | 47460573UA |
A modern classic, Flowers for Algernon has sold over five million copies worldwide and inspired the Academy Award-winning film Charly.
Klappentext:
'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?
Rezension:
This is one of the greats: a story and a central character that have stayed with me for thirty years, from the first moment I picked it up Conn Iggulden