
A Meeting by the River
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 01/11/2012
£9.99
Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099561095
- Number of pages: 192
- Weight: 141g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm