Publication

1977 - Viking Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL4899074M
  • ISBN-100670115223
  • OCLC Control Number2439520
  • Library of Congress Control Number76042233
  • LibraryThing104329
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  • Goodreads952440

Classifications

  • DDC823/.9/14
  • LCCPZ4.A517 Al3

Description

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?

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The alterationViking Press1977-01-01

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