# A Meeting by the River

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- Book: [A Meeting by the River](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-isherwood/a-meeting-by-the-river) ([A Meeting by the River.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-isherwood/a-meeting-by-the-river.md))
- Authors: [Christopher Isherwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-isherwood)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-109-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.