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Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married publisher, newly in love with a boy in Los Angeles, decides to visit Oliver to persuade him not renounce the world.
First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River exposes the complex rivalries of sibling relationships and dramatises the conflict between sexuality and spirituality.
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"The classical opposition between the good brother and the bad one convinces... you believe in them" (Guardian)
"A radiant novel of mystical devotion and worldly desire by a master of English prose" (Chicago Tribune)
"Brilliant, vital, challenging . . . very strange and very lovely" (Book Week)
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A deeply satisfying novel of sibling rivalry, sexuality and spirituality.
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0099561093
- ISBN 13 9780099561095
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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