Alec
Book description
William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster's classic, published only after the author's death.
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of…
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1 author picked Alec as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read E.M. Forster's long-suppressed novel, Maurice, in college. It was the tale of an aristocratic university student in Edwardian England — the titular Maurice — who falls in love with a poor gamekeeper named Alec. Although Maurice and Alec ended up with each other at the end of the first book, I always questioned how their relationship could survive in repressive England. Alec is a modern sequel that attempts to answer just that.
As a working-class man, Alec enjoys some personal freedom in a society that thinks and expects very little of him. Yet maintaining a secretive gay…
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