Daniel Keyes · 1966 · Novel
Setting: contemporary
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.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: American Science fictionBrainFictionGifted personsPeople with mental disabilitiesSurgeryaward:nebula_award=noveldementiainstitutionalizationnebula-winnerphenylketonuria
isfdb_id: 1927
openlibrary_id: OL515754W
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