Bibliograph

Algernon, Charlie, and I, a writer's journey : plus the complete original short novelette version of "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes

Type

Label

Algernon, Charlie, and I, a writer's journey : plus the complete original short novelette version of "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Algernon, Charlie, and I

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

patent document

Oclc number

646230445

Responsibility statement

by Daniel Keyes

Sub title

a writer's journey : plus the complete original short novelette version of "Flowers for Algernon"

Summary

Author David Keyes created an unlikely duo that has captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. It is the classic story--part of which has now come true--of an experiment to increase intelligence, in which researchers first transform a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius. Charlie Gordon, who tells them, "I want to be smart," eagerly volunteers to follow in Algernon's four-legged footsteps through the maze of acquiring knowledge and learning about life

Table Of Contents

Maze of time: My writing cellar -- White mouse -- Second acting -- Breaking dishes -- I become ships doctor -- From ship to shrink: Inkblots -- Boy on book mountain -- Silence of the psychoanalysts -- First published stories -- Editing pulps and writing comic books -- Mind over matter: Looking for Charlie -- Charlie finds me -- Getting there -- Rejection and acceptance -- Alchemy of writing: Transformations; form story to teleplay to novel -- Rejected again -- Of love and endings -- We find a home -- Post-publication blues: "Don't hide your light under a bushel" -- When are writers like saints? -- "CHARLY" goes Hollywood -- Broadway bound -- And then what happened?

Target audience

adult

Classification