The Alteration
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  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446414699
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Alteration

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30 Sep 2011
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17 Dec 2020
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1 Sep 2004
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A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers.

Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes?
  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446414699
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis has been described as 'the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including Lucky Jim (1954), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995). He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Amis was awarded a CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.

Also by Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim
Collected Poems
The Amis Collection
All The Blood Within Me
That Uncertain Feeling
Take a Girl Like You
Difficulties With Girls
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Praise for The Alteration

Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force...

The Economist

Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century.

Guardian

The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange

Laura Keynes, Tablet

Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force...

The Economist

Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century.

Guardian