Winner · Nebula Awards 1967
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
novel by Daniel Keyes, based on a short story by the same name
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...
Synopsis from Open Library.
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- first-person narrative
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