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Amis, Kingsley The Alteration ISBN 13: 9780881844320

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Here Amis imagines what Europe would be like today had the Reformation of the 16th century never taken taken place. Against this setting, Amis weaves his ingenious story of a choirboy blessed with a sublime voice and of the clergy who conspire to "alter" him to preserve his soprano genius.

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"Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force..." (The Economist)

"Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century." (Guardian)

"The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange" (Laura Keynes Tablet)
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A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers.

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