Agent: Matthew Carnicelli, Carnicelli Literary Management. Forster is a high benchmark, but Di Canzio makes a noble effort in this inspired work. Alec A Novel by William di Canzio 0 Ratings 9 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 3 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2022 Publisher Picador Language English This edition doesnt have a description yet. Less compelling, however, are the subplots, such as one involving Maurice’s sister Kitty. The romance and the wartime scenes are particularly well rendered, as is a postwar episode featuring Alec in Cassis. Di Canzio liberally quotes dialogue from Forster’s novel for dozens of pages, creating a satisfying blend of fan fiction and intertextuality. The two men illicitly set up house and embark on “their life together as outlaws,” but their happiness ends with the beginning of WWI: both enlist and are separated, with Alec going through war’s “dripping faucet of terror” and hoping to reunite with Maurice. Alec is soon sent from Michaelmount to Penge, where after several months he meets Maurice and begins a romance that consumes them both. 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. Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Working-class Alec Scudder is born in 1893 Dorset, where he becomes a voracious reader while at school, then has his first sexual experience with a man before reluctantly leaving for a servant job at Michaelmount. Forster's classic novel Maurice, told from the gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective. Forster’s pioneering gay classic, Maurice, from the point of view of the gamekeeper who ends up with the title character. William di Canzios Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. Playwright Di Canzio’s canny debut retells E.M.
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