The alteration

Kingsley Amis

Original title: The Alteration

first published 1976 Penguin, 1988 paperback 205 pages

New York Review Books classics

An alternative history novel set in a world in which the Protestant Reformation never took place. Hubert Anvil is a singer in the choir of St. George's Basilica whose life is thrown into chaos when his teachers and the Church hierarchy decree that the boy's voice is too precious to sacrifice to puberty. Despite his own misgivings, he must undergo castration, the alteration of the title, in order to preserve it. Will...

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The alteration edition · 2013 · New York Review Books · 231 pages · 9781590176177
Alteration edition · 2013 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781299572096
Alteration edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781446414699
Alteration edition · 2004 · Penguin Random House · 208 pages · 9780099461081
The alteration paperback · 1988 · Penguin · 205 pages
The Alteration paperback · 1988 · Carroll & Graf Publishers · 204 pages · 9780881844320
Die Verwandlung. paperback · 1986 · Heyne · 254 pages
The alteration edition · 1978 · Triad · 205 pages
The alteration edition · 1977 · Viking Press · 210 pages
The alteration edition · 1976 · Cape · 208 pages

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