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 Maurice
 to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. 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.
 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. 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.

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