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- English
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New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590176170
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9781590176177
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Alteration
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Satire, Alternative History, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Humorous
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
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Trade Paperback
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0.6 in
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9.4 Oz
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8 in
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5 in
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2012-045909
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Reviews
"Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." --John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best--possibly the best--alternate-worlds novels in existence." --Philip K. Dick " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." --Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." --Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration ...I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, "It's a very demanding and very rigorous form of science fiction. Consequently, there are not too many (examples). My favorite is The Alteration by Kingsley Amis." -William Gibson "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." -John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best -possibly the best-alternate-worlds novels in existence." -Philip K. Dick " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." -Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." -Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration …I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." -Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, "I'm convinced. . . that The Alteration . . . deserves to endure. It succeeds not only as a wildly imaginative, vastly entertaining, fictional dystopia, but as an acute exploration of the emotional dynamics behind cultural, political or religious faith. . . . For all its witty arabesques, Amis's counterfactual schema has an underlying coherence and consistency. We see how faith-led social control seeks to dominate lives and minds -- and why it may falter." --Boyd Tonkin, UnHerd "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." --John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best--possibly the best--alternate-worlds novels in existence." --Philip K. Dick "A masterpiece of its kind." --William Gibson, The New York Times " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." --Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Hapsburg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." --Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration . . . I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." --John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best--possibly the best--alternate-worlds novels in existence." --Philip K. Dick " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." --Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." --Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration ...I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." --John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best--possibly the best--alternate-worlds novels in existence." --Philip K. Dick "A masterpiece of its kind." --William Gibson, The New York Times " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." --Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Hapsburg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." --Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration . . . I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." -John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best -possibly the best-alternate-worlds novels in existence." -Philip K. Dick " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." -Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." -Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration …I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." -Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976. "If Kingsley Amis enjoyed writing The Alteration as much as I enjoyed reading it, then we've both been having a high old time." David Williams, Daily Telegraph "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best -- possibly the best -- alternate-worlds novels in existence." Philip K. Dick " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." Michael Dirda " The Alteration , published in 1976, is one of his most inventive works, imagining a 20th century dominated by the Catholic Church." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ("Shall we be mother?"), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ("The Alteration"), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis had a bracing attitude toward popular culture, writing about science fiction, for example, "As a recently retired university teacher I can't help being slightly drawn to any form of writing that reaches no part of its audience through compulsion." The great drawback of sci-fi is the dearth of sex from which it compels itself to suffer (I realized when reading Leader's book that this is why I have never bothered with the genre), but Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration …I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly "The branch of fiction known variously as alternate history, alternative history, or, to its geekier fans, alt-hist can be awesome fun. Its defining gimmick--set the wayback machine, tweak something in the historical past, and fantasize about how things might have played out--has proved irresistible to legions of writers, including some good ones. Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" (1962) and Robert Harris's "Fatherland" (1992) posit an Axis triumph in the Second World War; Kingsley Amis's "The Alteration" (1976) takes the conceit that Martin Luther became Pope and runs with it; and Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" (2004) has Charles Lindbergh, the famous pilot and anti-Semite, defeating Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election." Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker "It's a very demanding and very rigorous form of science fiction. Consequently, there are not too many (examples). My favorite is The Alteration by Kingsley Amis." William Gibson, "Buoyantly inventive from its ground-plan to its remotest pinnacles and twirly bits, Kingsley Amis's new novel has almost nothing expectable about it, except that it is a study of tyranny." --John Carey, New Statesman "One of the best--possibly the best--alternate-worlds novels in existence." --Philip K. Dick "A masterpiece of its kind." --William Gibson, The New York Times " The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction." --Michael Dirda "In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration , Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. Henry's malcontent Protestant followers, after an abortive rebellion, were banished to New England, where they eventually invented free trade, electricity and personal hygiene. So Europe in the 1960s groaned under a papistical Haps burg tyranny. Harold Wilson was pope, dispensing tea in the Vatican ('Shall we be mother?'), and papal scouts combed English cathedrals for likely singing boys who, after suitable surgery ('The Alteration'), became castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir." --Eamon Duffy, Sunday Times (UK) "Amis, not content with writing scholarly treatments of the subject, produced a historical/futurological novel, The Alteration ...I might add that the subject of sex in this work is introduced in the most radical and subversive way, though without the smallest hint of the pornographic." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly
Dewey Decimal
823/.9/1
Synopsis
BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is "one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence" (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice. How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle . The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976., BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction novel is "one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence" (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice. How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle . The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976., In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice. How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle . The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976.
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PR6001.M6A48 2013
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