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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 01/11/2012
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ISBN: 9780099561095
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Length: 192 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
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Weight: 138g
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RRP: £9.99
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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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 01/11/2012
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ISBN: 9780099561095
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Length: 192 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
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Weight: 138g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"The classical opposition between the good brother and the bad one convinces… you believe in them"
Guardian
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"A radiant novel of mystical devotion and worldly desire by a master of English prose"
Chicago Tribune
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"Brilliant, vital, challenging . . . very strange and very lovely"
Book Week
