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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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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1967, Methuen young books
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1967
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1999
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1982
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1967, Simon and Schuster
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1967
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2013,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
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Vintage Classics, London
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1999,
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN
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Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY
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Avon Books
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1984,
Methuen Publishing Ltd, London
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1982,
Mandarin, London
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1967,
Methuen young books, London
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