Kingsley Amis

Taking part in the 1976 requiem for Stephen III of England, a boy soprano is unaware that his faultless voice has led his elders to select him as a castrato

The Alteration

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Originally published: Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 1976.

Kevin Bertolero

Trevor Berrett

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.

The Alteration

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