A Meeting by the River

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.