The Touch

The Touch

by Daniel Keyes
The Touch

The Touch

by Daniel Keyes

Paperback(Revised Edition)

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Overview

When Karen Stark becomes pregnant, she and Barney are overjoyed. They�ve wanted a baby for so long. After an industrial accident, Barney unknowingly spreads radioactive dust into his neighborhood, into his home, and onto his wife�s body. As frightened friends and neighbors become enemies, the dream of becoming parents turns into a nightmare. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781929519026
Publisher: Challenge Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 02/28/2003
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 1,028,956
Product dimensions: 5.48(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Daniel Keyes (1927 ¿ 2014), the author of the fascinating and heartbreaking Flowers for Algernon, was inspired by his experience teaching English to students with special needs. Beginning as a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, it was originally rejected by five publishers because Keyes refused to change the ending. It was adapted into the 1968 movie, Charly.

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