![]() 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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