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Description

1. 210 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. 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?

Subject

1. Great Britain
2. Choirboys
3. Novels
4. History
5. Fiction
6. Alternative histories (Fiction)
7. Science fiction
8. England
9. Catholic Church
10. Great Britain > History > Fiction
11. Choirboys > England > Fiction
12. Castrati > Fiction
13. Catholic Church Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Science fiction.
2. Alternative histories (Fiction)
3. Novels.
4. Fiction.
5. History.

Call number

1. MSS DIV IGIC FIC A24

Awards (note)

1. Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for 1977.

Author

1. Amis, Kingsley, author.

Title

1. The alteration / Kingsley Amis.

Publisher

1. New York : Viking Press, 1977.

Copyright date

1. ©1976

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Awards

1. Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for 1977.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Manuscripts and Archives Collection

Other form:

1. Online version: Amis, Kingsley. Alteration. New York : Viking Press, 1977, ©1976 (OCoLC)567979261

LCCN

1. 76042233

ISBN

1. 0670115223
2. 9780670115228

Research call number

1. MSS DIV IGIC FIC A24