num_pages: 224
description: Hubert, the ten-year-old chorister’s glorious voice must be preserved at all costs. In Amis’s quasi-medieval England of 1976, a wickedly brilliant Swiftian satire takes shape. The modest proposal? Well, it stands to reason that castration is clearly the only answer.
language: English
title: The Alteration
titlecomplete: The Alteration
characters: Hubert Anvil
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Religion, British Literature, Speculative Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1434
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd