Your Store
Select A Store
Select Store
There are no stores nearby.
My Store:
Select A Store
Availability:
-
Online Only
$22.73
New
-
Hardcover
-
9780151001637
Overview
Overview
Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Keyes, Daniel
- ISBN: 9780151001637
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.32 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 1995
Language:
English
Customer Reviews
Rating Snapshot
5 ★
75%
4 ★
25%
3 ★
0%
2 ★
0%
1 ★
0%
4 Ratings
0
0% Would Recommend
0 Recommendations
Review Images
Sort by:
-
Important and devastating
Christine B. - 5 years 9 months agoA classic for high school-aged students literature students. This book is important and devastating with the topics of mistreatment and misunderstanding of those who have a mental illness. As the book progresses, the happiness seems to fade and you're left feeling sad and frantically flipping through the pages praying for a happy ending.
HPB Staff Review -
#SummerReading for all ages!
Lizzie M. - 6 years agoFlowers for Algernon is an important lesson to all readers that pure intelligence, while nice, isn’t as valuable as being a good person. Charlie begins to possess a higher and higher IQ but his emotional intelligence remains the same — Keyes poses the question of, “is it really worth it to sacrifice human connection for being smart?” Of course, the answer is no, but we learn Charlie’s lesson through himself and Algernon in a story that will no-doubt leave you teary-eyed. 100% recommend for anyone’s #SummerReading
-
#SummerReading
Emily F. - 6 years agoRead this book for the first time in 5th grade and the story is so powerful I still think about it 15 years later. This book will punch you in the feels in the best way. Can’t wait to read it again for my #SummerReading !!❤️❤️
-
A timeless novel about love, self-discovery, and pain.
Courtland S. - 6 years 10 months agoCharlie Gordon is happy--he has a wonderful job at a bakery with great friends, he goes to school...but with an IQ of 68, his awareness is limited. A nearby university wants to perform an experimental procedure on Charlie that is supposed to raise his IQ, but no one knows to what limit; the procedure has so far only been performed on a mouse named Algernon. Charlie accepts and undergoes the surgery; in a matter of weeks, Charlie is a genius, far more intelligent than any human they've seen. He becomes aware that his "friends" at the bakery are not his friends at all, and that his school is for mentally handicapped adults, including himself. And then, Algernon's intelligence starts to deteriorate...
HPB Staff Review