“Alec” ntu the story of E.M. Forster’s classic gay novel “Mrice” - Philalphia Gay News

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E. M. Forster's novel, Mrice, scrib the velopment of a young gay man early 20th century England. A Review wh Analysis.

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GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER

Forster’s novel featured a rare happy endg for gay characters. William di Canz’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and ntu their story. * em forster gay *

Forster, cludg his sex diary, reveal that his first enunter wh a man, at age 38, and the way pound his lifelong stggle wh homosexualy killed his creative drive.

A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’

Acrdg to the Tim, "A poignant entry stat: 'Now I am 85 how annoyed I am wh society for wastg my time by makg homosexualy crimal. Forster’s “Mrice” offered a rarefied view of queer possibily: a happy endg for gay men, wh the book’s protagonist, the wealthy and well-ted stockbroker Mrice Hall, fdg love wh the young groundskeeper Alec Scudr. Th, he watched his ially ntemporary novel age to an embalmed perd piece about the cripplg, self-nnibalizg anxieti that homosexual men lived wh early-20th-century England.

“ALEC” NTU THE STORY OF E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY NOVEL “MRICE”

Forster that bee he, Forster, was celibate, he didn’t know what he was talkg about Mrice, his novel of gay love triumphant.

Forster died 1970 at the age of 91, at the dawn of gay liberatn. He had put away his one gay novel, among a lot of other unpublished work, but Mrice appeared prt almost as soon as he died, wh revisns suggted by his iends down through the years.

A GAY OLD TIME? MRICE BY E. M. FORSTER

It was Brish, gay, and upper class, everythg a black Amerin queer uld want. That was unlike other gay novels I was readg at the time, which end wh the guillote, murr around the mpfire, lonely overdos, exhsted partur, or the long farewell of lookg back on lost love. I knew om Colette that gay lovers uld retire to a ral paradise.

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