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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

An intellectually disabled bakery cleaner undergoes an experimental scientific procedure that dramatically increases his intelligence, only to face a devastating decline as the temporary effects wear off.

Accession 15623 ISBN 0575040610 Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd.
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