The Alteration
1976Fiction in EnglishHistorical fictionCastratos in fictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, alternative history
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Open LibraryAbout this book
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?
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Fiction in EnglishHistorical fictionCastratos in fictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, alternative historyFantasy fiction
First published 1976About the author
Kingsley Amis
16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995
KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement. Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us in…
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