Alteration
Kingsley Amis

Narrated By: Michael Fox

Duration: 7 hours and 47 minutes

What to expect

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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

Genre

Classic fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction, Science fiction

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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.

Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force...

The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange