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      Alec

      by William di Canzio
      Published
      Jul 2021
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      Literary Literary
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      352
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

      Characters & Occupations

      LGBTQ

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      Jul 2022 Picador ISBN13 9781250849236 ISBN10 1250849233
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      First Edition Jul 2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374102609 ISBN10 0374102600
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      Jul 2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374722463 ISBN10 0374722463
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      Jul 2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B08FGV6LFX
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      Jul 2021 Macmillan Audio ISBN10 B08KYN1LZ1
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