An edition of The Alteration (1976)

The alteration

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An edition of The Alteration (1976)

The alteration

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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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Publisher
Cape
Language
English
Pages
208

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2013, New York Review Books
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Alteration
2013, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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Alteration
2011, Penguin Random House
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Alteration
2004, Penguin Random House
in English
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The Alteration
September 1988, Carroll & Graf Publishers
Paperback in English
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The alteration
February 1988, Penguin
Paperback in English
Cover of: Die Verwandlung
Die Verwandlung
1986, Heyne
Taschenbuch in German
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The alteration
1978, Triad
in English
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The alteration
1977, Viking Press
in English
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The alteration
1976, Cape
in English
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The alteration
1976, Cape
in English
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The alteration
1976, Jonathan Cape
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Die Verwandlung.
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Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1F
Library of Congress
PZ4.A517 Al, PR6001.M6 Al

The Physical Object

Pagination
208p. ;
Number of pages
208

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21191104M
Internet Archive
thealteration0000king
ISBN 10
022401305X
LCCN
76380384
OCLC/WorldCat
2896009, 2582163
LibraryThing
104329
Goodreads
952438

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1863560W

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