Book
The AlterationKingsley Amis

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis
1976208 pages
No counted ratings yet
10 editions · 2 languages
FantasyHistorical

Track this book

You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
Sign in
Add to list

About

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 he escape this turn of fate?

More by Kingsley Amis

All books

More like this

Reviews

Rating integrity

Healthy
Counted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.

Editions

10 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 1988
    Penguin · 205 pages · 9780140099522
  • Paperback · English · 1988
    Carroll & Graf Publishers · 204 pages · 9780881844320
  • Other · English · 2013
    Alteration
    New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781299572096
  • Other · English · 2013
    New York Review Books · 231 pages · 9781590176177
  • Other · English · 2011
    Alteration
    Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781446414699
  • Other · English · 2004
    Alteration
    Penguin Random House · 208 pages · 9780099461081
Fiction in EnglishHistorical fictionCastratos in fictionFiction, alternative historyFantasy fictionFictionCastratiChoirboys