![]() ![]() Or rather, they both fall in love-it is love at first sight. This is when his eyes meet Alec’s, passing him on his way into the estate, and he falls in love. Maurice is undergoing treatment, hoping to be hypnotized out of loving Clive and out of his attractions to men in general he even endures the household speculation that he is courting a woman. Clive was the first person to give a name and a language to the feelings Maurice had all his life before this, and Maurice now knows no other world that could sustain him. ![]() By the time Alec appears in Maurice’s life, three-quarters of the way through the novel, Maurice has come to visit Clive’s country home, desolate over Clive’s seemingly abrupt marriage and subsequent transformation into a heterosexual local politician running for office. ![]() Clive has given up on the chaste love he and Maurice had promised each other as a compromise between their feelings and what they felt “respectability” demanded of them instead, he has married the woman his family expected him to marry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pp., $27.00Īlec Scudder is a young assistant gamekeeper in the employ of Clive Durham, the first love of the titular Maurice Hall. ![]()
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