Travels With My Aunt (The collected edition, #20) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) (Vintage Voyages)

Name: Travels With My Aunt
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by Graham Greene

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Travels With My Aunt (The collected edition, #20) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) (Vintage Voyages)

by Graham Greene

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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.

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ISBN10 0099282585
ISBN13 9780099282587
Publish Date 2 September 1999 (first published November 1969)
Publish Status Active
Publish Country GB
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage Classics

Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
Pages 272
Language English
URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780099282587

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I laughed out loud so many times reading this book.

It is sublime and it is subversive, and the dialogue between Aunt Augusta and Henry actually reminds me of some conversations I have had with my great-uncle, whose stories have influenced me in a similar way that Henry has been affected by his Aunt – except, of course, that neither of has been involved in smuggling, founding religious groups, or “the stage”... well, at least not that I know of. I should give him a ring again soon.

Having read [b:The Heart of the Matter|3692|The Heart of the Matter|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385263150s/3692.jpg|3266950] and [b:The End of the Affair|29641|The End of the Affair|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328010344s/29641.jpg|267229], I am glad though that this is not the first of Greene’s novels I turned to, as Travels With My Aunt seems to be quite different. It’s [b:Our Man in Havana|133394|Our Man in Havana|Graham Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327926887s/133394.jpg|1912267] next for me to delve into his spy novels.