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      A Meeting by the River

      by Christopher Isherwood
      Published
      Jun 1985
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Isherwood's final work of fiction—an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticism

      After a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick, a successful publisher with a wife and children in London and a male lover in California, has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices.

      First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River delicately depicts the complexity of sibling relationships—the resentment and competitiveness as well as the love and respect. Ultimately, the brothers' exposure to each other's differences deepens their awareness of themselves. In A Meeting by the River, Christopher Isherwood dramatizes the conflict between sexuality and spirituality that inspired his late writings.

      "The best prose writer in English." Gore Vidal

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      First Edition Jun 1985 Avon ISBN13 9780380379453 ISBN10 0380379457
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      Dec 1988 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374520762 ISBN10 0374520763
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      Dec 1999 University of Minnesota Press ISBN13 9780816633685 ISBN10 0816633681
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      Nov 2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374711054 ISBN10 0374711054
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