New Releases by Daniel Keyes

The author of Flowers for Algernon discusses the highs & lows of the writing life, as well as his methods for creating fiction. In his bestselling novel Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo—a laboratory mouse and a man—who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. For the first time, readers, writers, teachers, and students can glimpse the creative life behind this cherished novel. Includes the original novelette version of Flowers for Algernon

After a mouse gets out of a maze faster than he does, mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon volunteers for an experiment to enhance his brainpower. Soon he goes from an IQ of 68 to genius level and beyond. Only now does Charlie feel that to be mentally handicapped was to be different. And the experiment is running into trouble. This touching, must-read story is finally available in Spanish.

Algernon est une souris de laboratoire dont le traitement du Pr Nemur et du Dr Strauss vient de décupler l''intelligence. Enhardis par cette réussite, les deux savants tentent alors, avec l''assistance de la psychologue Alice Kinnian, d''appliquer leur découverte à Charlie Gordon, un simple d''esprit employé dans une boulangerie. C''est bientôt l''extraordinaire éveil de l''intelligence pour le jeune homme. Il découvre un monde dont il avait toujours été exclu, et l''amour qui naît entre Alice et lui achève de le métamorphoser. Mais un jour, les facultés supérieures d''Algernon déclinent. Commence alors pour Charlie le drame atroce d''un homme qui, en pleine conscience, se sent retourner à l''état de bête...

Mentally retarded Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius, but only temporarily.

When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie''s intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie? An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly.

A true crime story with a fascinating psychic twist, it began oneght when club owner Mickey McCann, the go-go girl who lived with him, and McCann''s elderly mother, were found shot to death in McCann''s home. One month later Claudia Elaine Yasko confessed to the most explosive murder case in the history of Columbus, Ohio. After three years of research, Keyes (The Minds of Billy Milligan, Flowers for Algernon) provides the answers.