Travels With My Aunt

Graham Greene author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Sep '99

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A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel.

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay...Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay... Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists - V S Pritchett, The Times
The only book I have ever written just for the fun of it -- Graham Greene
No serious writer of [the twentith century] has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene - Time
Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099282587

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm

Weight: 200g

272 pages