About the Book:

HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still available.

The author's final work of fiction – an epistolary novel, bringing together Christopher Isherwood's thoughts on sexual identity and Eastern mysticism. A Meeting by the River, unlike most of his novels, is not in the first person (it takes the form of letters and diary extracts), but delicately depicts the complexity of sibling relationships – the resentment and competitiveness as well as the love and respect.

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. 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.

What people say:

"The best prose writer in English." — Gore Vidal

"A radiant novel of mystical devotion and worldly desire by a master of English prose." — Chicago Tribune

"Brilliant, vital, challenging… very strange and very lovely." — Book Week

About the Author:

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a British-born American writer who worked in many genres, including fiction, drama, film, travel, and autobiography. He was born in Manchester, England, and lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books.