Travels With My Aunt
$24.57
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
22 October 1999
Summary
A witty, inventive read for anyone with 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…
Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099282587 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099282585 |
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
“Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings…the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief.” - V.S. Pritchett,The Times
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 *
Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
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