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A Meeting by the River
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BiBi
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“Excellent. Over the years of reading Isherwood's novels, mostly in their chronological order of composition, I've watched him grow as a writer while I myself grew as a person. It's been a fun process, particularly knowing how often his fiction is highly autobiographical. It's become a mental exercise to guess which characters represent whom or are amalgams. In A Meeting By the River, Isherwood brings some freshly honed skills to bear in presenting this story of two brothers meeting near the eve of the younger's ordination as a Hindu Swami. The novel is structured as a series of letters, rendering every narrator unreliable, which creates a natural suspense that might otherwise be tricky when the voices of the characters are on the formal side. Isherwood's post screenwriting experience shows in the actual sentence work is some of his cleanest and least dense, and he relies on character and structure to do the heavy lifting of theme and emotional impact. It's a swift, moving read, and another brick in the path of a career I've highly enjoyed following.”
Wina Indiarto
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About Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was born outside of Manchester, England. His life in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 inspired
, which were adapted into a play, a film, and the musical
. Isherwood 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, including the novel
and his autobiography,
.
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