![]() ![]() Forster’s iconic gay novel, Maurice (1971). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Alec by William di Canzio Alec is an inspired tribute to E.M. Forster's literary masterpiece Maurice, told from the gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective. Alec continues Forster's project of telling stories that are part of "a great unrecorded history." Di Canzio's debut novel is a love story of epic proportions, at once classic and boldly new. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec-a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. William di Canzio is a playwright, whose plays-including the award-winning Dooley and Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier -have been staged in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. ![]() 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. William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. ![]()
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