Flowers for Algernon

Тридцать лет назад это считалось фантастикой. Тридцать лет назад это читалось как фантастика. Исследующая и расширяющая границы жанра, жадно впитывающая всевозможные новейшие веяния, примеряющая общечеловеческое лицо, отважно игнорирующая каинову печать «жанрового гетто». Сейчас это воспринимается как одно из самых человечных произведений новейшего времени, как роман пронзительной психологической силы, как филигранное развитие темы любви и ответственности. Не зря вышедшую уже в 90-е книгу...

Sally Porter is perfectly 'ordinary'. A waitress, divorcee, and loner in the great city. But, though she is unaware of it, she is also four other, quite different people: Nola, the cold independent artist who has a studio in Greenwich Village; Derry, the happy-go-lucky tomboy; Bella, the highly-sexed live wire with a talent for singing and dancing; and finally Jinx, the hate-filled killer. Whenever events put too much of a strain on Sally Porter, she feels a headache and a blackout...

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winner of the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and subsequently expanded into a Hugo-nominated novel, Flowers for Algernon earned Daniel...

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.