Travels With My Aunt
(Vintage Voyages)
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Jun '19
Should be back in stock very soon
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt.
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief * The Times *
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists - V S Pritchett, The Times
Funny and bizarre... This is a Greene with the lightest touches -- Susan Hill * The Lady *
No serious writer of [the twentith century] has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene - Time
ISBN: 9781784875336
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 192g
272 pages