Girl, 20Amis, Kingsley

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Here Amis imagines what Europe would be like today had the Reformation of the 16th century never taken taken place. Against this setting, Amis weaves his ingenious story of a choirboy blessed with a sublime voice and of the clergy who conspire to "alter" him to preserve his soprano genius.
"The grim story never blends smoothly with the fanciful setting: on the contrary, they fight for precedence all the way and leave the reader wondering about the point of the whole exercise."
Pheobe-Lou Adams, Atlantic Monthly, February 1977
Review:"Both interesting and odd: loosely classifiable as science fiction, it is far more than another exercise in pastiche....Mr. Amis is attempting a work far outside his previous range, and it is exhilarating to watch him swerve along on two wheels of his talent."
Times Literary Supplement, 10/08/1976
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