Forster’s pioneering gay classic, Maurice, from the point of view of the gamekeeper who ends up with the title character.
"Playwright Di Canzio’s canny debut retells E.M. One imagines Forster would be pleased." - Booklist ( starred review) Although told this time from Alec’s point of view, the new novel successfully captures the spirit of Forster’s original.the love story itself remains timeless, and its seamless reimagining is an altogether memorable accomplishment. "The classic love story of upperclass Englishman Maurice Hill and gamekeeper Alec Scudder comes alive again in this inspired reimagining of E. I, for one, am extremely grateful.” - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours Alec extends Maurice, delivers it to us intact but refreshed and reconsidered. Forster’s Maurice one more time, as much as I love it, here’s Alec, William di Canzio’s brilliant reimagining of Forster’s classic. "Just when it began to seem that I couldn’t read E.
The question Maurice raised-is there anywhere these men can truly be together?-is made the more real, not the less, by the war and this novel." - Alexander Chee, The New Republic Di Canzio’s descriptions of their experiences are harrowing, tender, brutal, and comic. " Alec is the kind of novel Maurice could never be, full of sex and war, death and torture.
Alec is fiction as queer archaeology, demonstrating that looking back doesn’t necessarily mean looking backward."- Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review Di Canzio’s novel reads like an attempt to make these forgotten men feel less alone, to proliferate their stories. "There’s a sweeping romantic vision here that’s as old-fashioned as it is refreshingly modern, with this war-torn couple pining away for each other as they hold their love in the highest esteem, in bold defiance of English laws and customs.
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