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The Alteration
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Michael Fox
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 17 December 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
©Kingsley Amis 1976 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force...
The Economist
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Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century.
Guardian
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The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange
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Details
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Michael Fox
- Duration
- 7 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 December 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473579187
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Science fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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©Kingsley Amis 1976 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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