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The Alteration by Kingsley Amis is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Alteration 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?
Who reads The Alteration?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780099461081
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Alteration (2013)
- The Alteration (New York Review Books (Paperback)) (2013)
- The Alteration (New York Review Books Classics) (1976)
- The Alteration (1978)
- The Alteration (New York Review Books Classics) (2013)
- Conundrum (1976)
- The Alteration (1976)
- The Alteration (New York Review Books (Paperback)) (1976)
- Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics) (2013)
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